Paul and his letters : thinking with Josephus / F. B. A. Asiedu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asiedu, F. B. A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paul, the Apostle, Saint.

Paul.

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

Bible.

Josephus, Flavius.

Bible. Epistles of Paul.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 379 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, [2020]

Summary:

In this book, F. B. A. Asiedu presents a new framework for interpreting the life of Paul, his letters, his self-understanding as a Christian Jew, and his uniqueness among his contemporaries and in Jewish history. He does this by reading Paul's letters in relation to certain themes in Josephus's life.

Contents:

Part I: Paul the Former Pharisee; Chapter 1; Fragments of Paul's Biography; The Unknown Paul and the "Lost" History of Gamaliel the Elder and His "School"; Paul's "Former Life in Judaism" Among Commentators and Critics; Josephus, Bannus, and the Phenomenal Influence of John the Baptizer; John the Baptizer and the Prehistory of Paul's Gospel

Josephus as Paul's Potential Biographer: The Relevance of His "Missing" WifeNotes; Chapter 2; Paul and the First-Century Synagogue; First Thessalonians 2:14-16 and the Words of the Prophets That Are Read Every Sabbath; The Haftarah of Ki Tissa (Exodus 30:11-34:35): Have You Not Heard of Elijah?; Paul and the Ekklēsia Tou Theou; Paul in Context: Between Jerusalem, Galilee, and Damascus; Excursus: Andronicus, Junia, and Paul's "Gospel"; Notes; Part II: Reading Paul with Ben Sira and Josephus; Chapter 3; Paul and the Wisdom of Jesus Ben Sira

Translating the Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira: Sirach and the Elusive GrandsonThe School and Children of Ben Sira: Facts, Fictions, and Anxieties; Ben Sira, Scribe and Philosopher: The Mind of a Hellenistic Jew?; The Hymn in Honor of the Ancestors: Phinehas and Jewish Historical Consciousness; Reading Paul Reading Sirach the Grammateus; Notes; Chapter 4; Paul and the Ancestors; Abraham and Isaiah in the First-Century Synagogue; On Paul, Abraham, Hagar, and Sarah; Paul's Galatian Testament: Abraham Our Father, Isaiah Our Prophet; Abraham's Two Covenants: "Sarah" and "Hagar"

Josephus among the Scribes and the ProphetsNotes; Chapter 5; To the Romans and to Epaphroditus; Josephus: The Making of a Prophet; Josephus on Epaphroditus and His Roman Readers; Epaphroditus as Reader and Student of "Jewish Antiquities"; With Jerusalem on His Mind: Paul and the Letter to the Romans; Paul's Interminable Sorrow and a Prayer That Cannot Be Prayed; The Unbelief of Israel and the Mystery (mystērion) That Has Been Revealed; Paul's "Argument" as Aporetic Discourse; Paul, Pliny the Elder, and Josephus on Immortality and Resurrection; Notes; Part III: Paul's Letters; Chapter 6

Paul's Letters and the Matter of StyleGalatians and First Thessalonians: Three Propositions and a Contradiction; Counting Paul's Style: Theories in Search of Stylometric Proof; Presuming, Predicting, and Proving Forgeries: The Ehrman Dossier; Styling Paul: The Way the Text Reads; Notes; Chapter 7; Collecting and Authenticating Paul's Letters; The Problem with Josephus: Style and Substance; True Paul: Letters without Signature and the Peculiar Case of Second Thessalonians; William Wrede, the Authenticity of Second Thessalonians, and the Specter of Third Corinthians

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-362) and index.

Pseudonymity and Pauline Pseudepigraphy: A Note on Ehrman and the Pastorals

ISBN:

9781978704268

1978704267

OCLC:

1128817208

Publisher Number:

99983651804