RT Article
T1 Judaizing the Nations: The Ritual Demands of Paul's Gospel
JF New Testament studies
VO 56
IS 2
SP 232
OP 252
A1 Fredriksen, Paula 1951-
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1817747924
AB 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.
K1 Law-free gospel זכרו לכרכה
K1 Conversion
K1 Pagans
K1 Temple
K1 Ethnicity
K1 Paul
DO 10.1017/S0028688509990294