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Who Made Early Christianity?
The Jewish Lives of the Apostle Paul
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Artikel-Nr:
9780231174046
Veröffentl:
2015
Seiten:
208
Autor:
Jr. Gager
Gewicht:
409 g
Format:
218x148x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
John G. Gager is the William H. Danforth Professor of Religion (Emeritus) at Princeton University. His books include Moses in Greco-Roman Paganism; Kingdom and Community: The Social World of Early Christianity; The Origins of Anti-Semitism: Attitudes Toward Judaism in Pagan and Christian Antiquity; Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World; and Reinventing Paul.
In this philosophical and theological study, John Gager undermines the Apostle Paul's rejection of Judaism, conversion to Christianity, and founding of Christian anti-Judaism. Through meticulous research and well-supported argument, he finds that the rise of Christianity occurred well after Paul's death and attributes the distortion of the Apostle's views to early and later Christians. Though these elites ascribed a rejection-replacement theology to Paul's legend, Gager shows that the Apostle was considered a loyal Jew by many of his Jesus-believing contemporaries and that later Jewish and Muslim thinkers held the same view. He holds that one of the earliest misinterpretations of Paul was to make him the founder of Christianity, and in recent times numerous Jewish and Christian readers of Paul have moved beyond this understanding.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Was the Apostle to the Gentiles the Father of Christian Anti-Judaism?2. The Apostle Paul in Jewish Eyes: Heretic or Hero?3. Let's Meet Downtown in the Synagogue: Four Case Studies4. Two Stories of How Early Christianity Came to Be5. Turning the World Upside Down: An Ancient Jewish Life of Jesus6. EpilogueNotesIndex