Paul, Jew, Greek, and Roman / edited by Stanley E. Porter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Porter, Stanley E., 1956-

Series:

Pauline studies ; v. 5.

Pauline studies, 1572-4913 ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paul, the Apostle, Saint.

Paul.

Bible. Epistles of Paul--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Epistles of Paul--Theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What does it mean to study Paul the Apostle as Jew, Greek, and Roman? The framing of the question exposes the fact that the distinctions themselves involve a complex of ethnic, social, and cultural designations. Paul is both a complicated individual of the ancient world, because he combines in his one personage features of life in each of these cultural-ethnic (and even religious) areas of the ancient world, and one of many people of that world who evidenced such complexity. This volume, Paul: Jew, Greek, and Roman, explores a number of the important and diverse cultural, ethnic, and religious dimensions of the multi-faceted background of Paul the Apostle. Some of the treatments are focused and specific, while others range over the broad issues that go to making up the world of the Apostle.

Contents:

Paul as Jew, Greek, and Roman : an introduction / Stanley E. Porter

Light giving sources : examining the extent of Scriptural citation and allusion infuence in 1 Corinthians / H.H. Drake Williams III

Paul's attitude towards the law / Panayotis Coutsoumpos

The Jewish recipients of Galatians / Bas Van Os

Unity and diversity in Pauline eschatology / Andrew W. Pitts

Looking at the metaphor of Christ's body in 1 Corinthians 12 / Timothy L. Carter

Paul and the pagans / Craig A. Evans

Paul and the gymnasiarchs : two approaches to pastoral formation in antiquity / James R. Harrison

The polytheist identity of the "weak," and Paul's strategy to "gain" them : a new reading of 1 Corinthians 8:1-11:1 / Mark D. Nanos

"Fleshly" versus spirit perspectives in Romans 8:5-8 / Craig S. Keener

Educating the divided soul in Paul and Plato : reading Romans 7:7-25 and Plato's Republic / Joshua W. Jipp

Adopted as sons ([huiothesia]) : the missing piece in Pauline soteriology / Trevor J. Burke

Did Paul speak Latin? / Stanley E. Porter

Paul the Roman citizen : Roman citizenship in the ancient world and its importance for understanding Acts 22:22-29 / Sean A. Adams.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-40044-4

9786612400445

90-474-2491-3

OCLC:

608167650

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004171596.i-370 DOI