Paul: Apostate or apostle of Israel?

Zeitschrift fur die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der Alteren Kirche

Volumn 89, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 256-271

  Dunn, James D G ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 62449273780     PISSN: 00442615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/zntw.1998.89.3-4.256     Document Type: Review

References (33)

1. See e. g. G. Lüdemann, Paulus, der Heidenapostel. II. Antipaulinismus im frühen Christentum, Göttingen 1983, § 11.2
2. See also C. Klein, Theologie und Antijudaismus, München 1975, Kap. 3
3. E. P. Sanders, Paul and Palestinian Judaism, London 1977, 33-59
4. H. Maccoby, The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity, London 1986; id., Paul and Hellenism, London 1991
5. A. N. Wilson, Paul: The Mind of the Apostle, London 1997
6. Important influences in setting forward this 'third quest' have been G. Vermes, Jesus the Jew, London 1973
7. E. P. Sanders, Jesus and Judaism, London 1985
8. See e. g. D. A. Hagner, The Jewish Reclamation of Jesus: An Analysis and Critique of the Modern Jewish Study of Jesus, Zondervan 1984
9. In varying forms: Jesus as belonging under the heading of 'Judaism' (cf. R. Bultmann, Das Urchristentum im Rahmen der antiken Religionen, Zürich 1949)
10. I echo the title of P. Stuhlmacher's contribution in his debate with Pinchas Lapide (Paul: Apostate or Apostle?, in: Paul - Rabbi and Apostle, Minneapolis 1984, 11-30) as also the title of A. F. Segal, Paul the Convert: The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee, New Haven 1990.
11. My thesis echoes in its own words K.-W. Niebuhr, Heidenapostel aus Israel. Die jüdische Identitat des Paulus nach ihrer Darstellung in seinen Briefen, Tübingen 1992
12. See my The New Perspective on Paul, BJRL 65 (1983) 95-122
13. reprinted with additional notes in: J. D. G. Dunn, Jesus, Paul and the Law: Studies in Mark and Galatians, London 1990, 183-214.
14. See further J. D. G. Dunn, Paul's Conversion - A Light to Twentieth Century Disputes, in: Evangelium - Schriftauslegung - Kirche. FS Peter Stuhlmacher, Göttingen 1977, 77-93
15. Particularly influential has been the argument of C. K. Barrett, The Allegory of Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar in the Argument of Galatians, in: id., Essays on Paul, London 1982, 154-170
16. S. McKnight, A Light among the Gentiles: Jewish Missionary Activity in the Second Temple Period, Minneapolis 1991
17. M. Goodman, Mission and Conversion: Proselytizing in the Religious History of the Roman Empire, Oxford 1994, ch. 4
18. See e.g. Dunn, Romans (above n. 27), 44.133.135-136
19. In LXX, chesed is usually translated as Paul prefers the richer term ('grace'); see further J. D. G. Dunn, The Theology of Paul the Apostle, Grand Rapids/Edinburgh 1998, § 13.2. It is notable, however, that at key points in his exposition he reverts to the theme of 'mercy' (11, 30-32; 15, 9)
20. E. g. F. Watson, Paul, Judaism and the Gentiles (SNTSMS 56), Cambridge 1986, 168.227, n. 9;
21. Räisänen, Römer 9-11: Analyse eines geistigen Ringens, ANRW 2/25/4 (1987) 2891-2939: 2900
22. As e.g. M. Theobald, Kirche und Israel nach Röm. 9-11, Kairos 29 (1987) 1-22.
23. and M. Rese, Israel and Kirche in Römer 9, NTS 34 (1988) 208-217
24. Note that the tension in the concept of 'Israel' in 9, 6 ('not all Israel', 'Israel') is both picked up (a deliberate inclusio) and resolved in 11, 25-26 ('Israel partially hardened', 'all Israel'). See further Dunn, Theology (above n. 33), § 19
25. Most recently D. Moo, The Epistle to the Romans (NICNT), Grand Rapids 1996, 574
26. C. E. B. Cranfield, Romans II (ICC), Edinburgh 1979, 559
27. The most prominent recent exponents of the view that Paul's theology was inconsistent and self-contradictory are H. Räisänen, Paul and the Law (WUNT 29) Tübingen 1983
28. and E. P. Sanders, Paul, the Law, and the Jewish People, Philadelphia 1983
29. See further e. g. L. W. Hurtado, One God One Lord: Early Christian Devotion and Ancient Jewish Monotheism, Philadelphia 1988;
30. J. D. G. Dunn, The Partings of the Ways between Chrsitianity and Judaism, London 1991, ch. 10;
31. id., Theology (above n. 33), §§2.2-3; 10.5
32. See particularly the essays by J. M. G. Barclay, Do we undermine the Law?: A Study of Romans 14, 1-15, 6, in: J. D. G. Dunn (ed.), Paul and the Mosaic Law (WUNT 89), Tübingen 1996, 287-308
33. id., Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan (323 BCE-117 CE), Edinburgh 1996, ch. 13: 'Paul: An Anomalous Diaspora Jew'