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Judaizing the Nations: The Ritual Demands of Paul's Gospel
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The authors argued that Paul's principled resistance to circumcising Gentiles precisely preserves these distinctions "according to the flesh" which were native to Jewish restoration eschatology even in its Pauline iterations.Abstract:
Much current NT scholarship holds that Paul conducted a ‘Law-free’ mission to Gentiles. In this view, Paul fundamentally repudiated the ethnic boundaries created and maintained by Jewish practices. The present essay argues the contrary: Paul's principled resistance to circumcising Gentiles precisely preserves these distinctions ‘according to the flesh’, which were native to Jewish restoration eschatology even in its Pauline iterations. Paul required his pagans not to worship their native gods—a ritual and a Judaizing demand. Jerusalem's temple, traditionally conceived, gave Paul his chief terms for conceptualizing the Gentiles' inclusion in Israel's redemption. Paul's was not a ‘Law-free’ mission.read more
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Pilgrimage as singing and walking in the way of the law of Christ : interpreting 'dying to the law' in Gal. 2:19
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reinterpreted Gal. 2:19-20 as part of Paul's autobiographical narrative, considering the social-historical context, i.e. first century Judaism with the Jerusalem Temple at its centre.
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Law and Power: Matthew, Paul, and the Anthropology of Law
TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between legal discourse and the exercise of power in the Gospel of Matthew and the letters of Paul and argued that relations of power are instrumental in forming law as an object of discourse in these two sets of texts.
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Love of Neighbour (Lev 19:18) : the early reception history of Its priestly formula
TL;DR: This article examined the early Jewish reception of the love command (Lev 19:18) during the Second Temple period and systematically traced its interpretation in Second Temple, Jewish literature by carefully examining its citations in context.
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The Reception of Paul and Early Christian Initiation: History and Hermeneutics
TL;DR: Benjamin Edsall as discussed by the authors traces the close association between Paul and the catechumenate through important texts and readers from the late second century to the fourth century to show how the early Church arrived at a wide-spread image of Paul as the apostle of Christian initiation.
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Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion
TL;DR: Miasma as discussed by the authors is the first work in English to treat this theme in detail, focusing on the pollution of bloodshed in ancient Greek literature: Orestes is driven mad; Oedipus brings plague upon all Thebes; and political orators represent their opponents as polluting demons.
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The theology of Paul the Apostle
TL;DR: The Theology of Paul the Apostle, by James D. G. Dunn as discussed by the authors, is a complete account of the life and faith of the Apostle Paul, including a detailed analysis of all the authentic letters.
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The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity
TL;DR: Ethnic Prejudice, Proto-Racism and Imperialism in Antiquity, Selected BIBLIOGRAPHY 517 INDEX of SOURCes 541 GENERAL INDEX 553.
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Fatal Charades: Roman Executions Staged as Mythological Enactments*
TL;DR: Tertullian, illustrating the sacrilegious nature of pagan religion, records that in an auditorium he saw a person being burned to death in the role of Hercules and another being castrated as Attis; both of these examples he adduces to substantiate his assertion to his pagan audience that ‘criminals often adopt the roles of your deities'.