N. T. Wright on Paul the Pharisee and ancient Jews in exile
This article examines two topics that emerge from N. T. Wright's Paul and the Faithfulness of the Gospel: Paul the Shammaite-zealot and the great narrative' of an Israel in exile, waiting for something. The perspective adopted is that of a historian, for whom the fundamental question is w...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2016]
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 69, Issue: 4, Pages: 432-452 |
| Review of: | Paul and the faithfulness of God (London : SPCK, 20XX) (Mason, Steve)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Paul Apostle
/ Pharisees
/ Zealots (Judaism)
/ Israel
/ Exile
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament HD Early Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
B Josephus B zealot B Exile B Paul B N. T. Wright B Pharisees |
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| Summary: | This article examines two topics that emerge from N. T. Wright's Paul and the Faithfulness of the Gospel: Paul the Shammaite-zealot and the great narrative' of an Israel in exile, waiting for something. The perspective adopted is that of a historian, for whom the fundamental question is whether Wright's accounts approximate plausible reality two thousand years ago. With respect to the first topic, analysis of source material on the Pharisees in the pre-70 period renders Wright's association of Paul with the rabbinic House of Shammai' and zealotry doubtful in every part. Similar issues arise in relation to the second topic, where Wright's proposal is supported by a kind of proof-texting, without methodical concern for the nature, context, coherence, themes, rhetoric or meaning of texts in situ. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930616000405 |