Paul Among the Gentiles: A "Radical" Reading of Romans / Jacob P. B. Mortensen

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mortensen, Jacob P. B., Author.

Series:

Neutestamentliche Entwürfe zur Theologie ; Band 28.

NET – Neutestamentliche Entwürfe zur Theologie 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paul’s Letter to the Romans.

Radical New Perspective / Paul within Judaism.

Gentile Christ-believers.

Apostle to the gentiles.

Two-covenant theology.

Local Subjects:

Paul’s Letter to the Romans.

Radical New Perspective / Paul within Judaism.

Gentile Christ-believers.

Apostle to the gentiles.

Two-covenant theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tübingen Narr Francke Attempto Verlag 2018

Biography/History:

Jacob P.B. Mortensen received his Masters Degree in Theology and a secondary Master in Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen. He finished his doctoral studies in 2014 from Aarhus University. He is currently executing post-doctoral research on the Gospel of Mark at Aarhus University and has published articles on Philosophy of Religion, Old Testament Theology, the Pseudepigrapha, Greco-Roman rhetoric and, primarily, New Testament subjects.

Summary:

This exciting new interpretation of Paul’s Letter to the Romans approaches Paul’s most famous letter from one of the newest scholarly positions within Pauline Studies: The Radical New Perspective on Paul (also known as Paul within Judaism). As a point of departure, the author takes Paul’s self-designation in 11:13 as “apostle to the gentiles” as so determining for Paul’s mission that the audience of the letter is perceived to be exclusively gentile. The study finds confirmation of this reading-strategy in the letter’s construction of the interlocutor from chapter 2 onwards. Even in 2:17, where Paul describes the interlocutor as someone who “calls himself a Jew,” it requests to perceive this person as a gentile who presents himself as a Jew and not an ethnic Jew. If the interlocutor is perceived in this way throughout the letter, the dialogue between Paul and the interlocutor can be perceived as a continuous, unified and developing dialogue. In this way, this interpretation of Romans sketches out a position against a more disparate and fragmentary interpretation of Romans.

Contents:

1 State of Research – the radical new perspective 2 Terminology: jews, gentiles, Christians, or something else? 3 Introductory Questions – Gentile addressees 4 A fictive gentile interlocutor 5 Romans 1:18-32 6 Romans 2:1-29 7 Romans 3:1-31 8 Romans 4:1-25 9 Romans 5:1-21 10 Romans 6:1-7:6 11 Romans 7:7-25 12 Romans 8:1-39 13 Romans 9-11 14 Romans 12-15 and the relation between the theological and the paraenetic part of the letter

Notes:

[1. Auflage]

Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-366).

ISBN:

3-7720-5656-3

Publisher Number:

9783772056567