Paul's Christians as Gentile-Jews
Subtitle: neither Jew nor Gentile, but both
By: Joshua D. Garroway
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781137281135
Subjects: RELIGION / Christian Theology / History; Bible; Identification (Religion); Criticism, interpretation; RELIGION / Christian Church / History; Jews in the New Testament; Biblical teaching; Gentiles in the New Testament; Christians; RELIGION / Christianity / History
Description: "How is it possible that the apostle Paul calls one and the same group of Gentile readers Jews, Gentiles, and neither Jews nor Gentiles without skipping a beat? Joshua Garroway has a solution. Garroway sees Paul caught up in the ancient debate over Jewish identity. Convinced his baptized charges had become Jews, yet unable to describe that transformation without invoking and confirming standard notions of Jewishness, Paul constructed a hybrid Gentile-Jewish identity. This novel approach to Paul invites fresh interpretations of Paul's letters, particularly Romans, and allows Garroway to reimagine Paul's role in the historical development of Christianity"--