Receptions of Paul during the First Two Centuries: Exploration of the Jewish Matrix of Early Christianity examines the historical context of Paul and the way Paul's Jewish heritage was received. Contributors take into consideration the aftermath of the Jewish War and its impact on the development of the Jesus movement and early Christian-Jewish relations in the following period. The chapters come to the conclusion that after the Jewish War, the reception of the authentic Paul was transformed more and more into the tradition about Paul, based and established by the second and third generations of Jesus-believing Gentiles, which perceived Paul as a convert from what is labeled "Judaism" ( ) to the complete opposite of it, "Christianity" ( ).
Frantisek Abel is professor of New Testament at the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Introduction Frantisek Abel Part 1: Knowing What's What in the Early Reception of Paul the Apostle Chapter 1: Correcting Some Misperceptions About Paul James H. Charlesworth Chapter 2: Observations on the Reception of the Pauline Expression "Works of the Law" Michael Bachmann Chapter 3: The Perception of Paul's Social Influence in the Corinthian Correspondence J. Brian Tucker Chapter 4: "Jezebel," Paul, and the Problem of Mixed Marriage. A Contested Reception of 1 Corinthians at the End of the First Century? Paul B. Duff Chapter 5: The Triumph of Paul in Portraits of Peter Joshua D. Garroway Part 2: The Early Reception of Paul the Apostle in the Deutero-Pauline Letters Chapter 6: The Pastoral Epistles and the Jewish Paul Stefan Krauter Chapter 7: The Role of Women in Teaching and Learning-Pauline Trajectories in Acts and in the Pastorals? Kathy Ehrensperger Chapter 8: Colossian "Philosophy" and Torah: Paul in a New Context (Col 2:6-23) Karl Olav Sandnes Chapter 9: The "Man of Lawlessness" as an Eschatological Enemy in Second Thessalonians and its Second Temple Period Jewish Background Kenneth Atkinson Chapter 10: Ephesians as the Quintessence of Pauline Deracination Neil Elliott Part 3: The Early Reception of Paul the Apostle in the Acts of the Apostles Chapter 11: From Pharisee to Ascetic. The Shift of the Image of the Apostle Paul in the Literature of the Genre of Acts Jiri Lukes Chapter 12: Paul's Torah Observance According to Acts in Light of Recent Reconfigurations of Paul's Jewishness Ruben A. Buhner Chapter 13: The Image of Paul in Act's Missionary Speeches Istvan M. Ledan Chapter 14: Paul in Acts 16:18-21 in the Context of Roman Law Valeria Terezia Danciakova Chapter 15: Justification and Salvation in Paul and Acts: A Reading "Within Second Temple Judaism" Gabriele Boccaccini Part 4: The Other Receptions of Paul the Apostle Chapter 16: How Pauline is the Gospel of John? Eric Noffke Chapter 17: The Epistle to the Hebrews as a Consoling Appeal to Ostracized Jewish Christ-followers: Reception of Jewish Paul in Hebrews Pavel Paluchnik Chapter 18: . Ignatius' Reception of Paul and Jewishness in the Antiochian Context: Another Piece of the Mosaic Frantisek Abel Part 5: Receptions of Paul during the First Two Centuries: A Critical Evaluation from Second Temple Judaism Research Chapter 19: "Correcting Some Misperceptions About New Testament Translation": A Response to A Presupposition in James H. Charlesworth's "Correcting Some Misperceptions About Paul" Hans Foerster Chapter 20: Perspectives on Perspectives: Overall Response to Presented Contributions Daniel Boyarin
Anyone researching Paul and his early reception will appreciate the variety of approaches and depth of scholarship undertaken in these essays by leading international New Testament scholars. Thank you Professor A bel and contributors for yet again advancing new, innovative developments in the field of "within Judaism" and related Pauline studies. -- Mark D. Nanos, Lund University; author of Reading Paul within Judaism
