Paul And Philo on Circumcision: Romans 2.25–9 in Social and Cultural Context

New Testament Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 536-556

  Barclay, John M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85016205736     PISSN: 00286885     EISSN: 14698145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0028688500016714     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Berkeley: University of California, 1994. His thesis is partly adumbrated in Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture (Berkeley: University of California, 1993) 1-10, 231-235.
2. See also D. Schwartz, Studies in the Jewish Background of Christianity (Tubingen: J. C. B. Mohr [P. Siebeck], 1992) 15-19.
3. On the use of terms here, and their likely polemical nuances in Rome, see J. Marcus, ‘The Circumcision and the Uncircumcision in Rome’, NTS 35 (1989) 67-81.
4. The Epistle of Paul to the Romans (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1932) 43.
5. J. L. Martyn, History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel (Nashville: Abingdon, 1968) showed that this question underlay many of the Johannine disputes with Jews. His thesis stands, even if the precise correlation with the birkath ha-minim is problematic to some degree.
6. See further T. Seland, Establishment Violence in Philo and Luke. A Study of Non-Conformity to the Torah and Jewish Vigilante Reactions (Leiden: Brill, 1995).