Cultural Translation and Receptions of Paul in the First Four Centuries [Hardcover]

There are two overlapping themes which serve as the focus ofCultural Translation and Receptions of Paul in the First Four Centuries: (a) reception of the apostle Paul in subsequent Christian traditions, and (b) the hypothesis that while Paul himself continued to think as a Jew, he was subsequently re-interpreted by non-Jews in non-Jewish and anti-Jewish ways: the so-called Paul within Judaism school.
The distinctive focus of this volume is on the dynamic of cultural translation, meaning, for example, the translation from the cultural world of Diaspora Judaism and its Septuagint to Greek philosophical and Greek Christian categories. The contributions to the book are diverse, ranging from younger to more senior scholars from both North America and Europe.

The book addresses not only the early reception of Paul's message in a variety of styles and insights, but also explores the implications of the use of terms, narratives, concepts, and notions transmitted from a Greek Jewish context of the first half of the first century into new contexts.Frantiaek ?belis professor of New Testament at the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

Once again, Frantiaek Abel has brought together an international assemblage of first-rate scholars to address and assess Paul's place not only within his own contemporary Jewishness, but also within the post-Pauline world of later Christian commentators. The volume, invigorating and thought-provoking, embodies fresh applications of the Paul within Judaism perspective while tracing the arc of cultural transmutations of the protean apostle.Cultural Translation and Receptions of Paulmarks an important milestone in the field of Pauline Studies. Paula Fredriksen, Aurelio Professor of Scripture emerita, Boston University, USA; Distinguished Visiting Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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