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Who Made Early Christianity?
The Jewish Lives of the Apostle Paul
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Artikel-Nr:
9780231174053
Veröffentl:
2017
Seiten:
208
Autor:
John G. Gager
Gewicht:
256 g
Format:
218x141x14 mm
Serie:
American Lectures on the History of Religions
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
John G. Gager
In this historical and theological study, John G. Gager undermines the myth of the Apostle Paul's rejection of Judaism, conversion to Christianity, and founding of Christian anti-Judaism. 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 Christian clerical 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 name 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