Paul and Politics: Ekklesia, Israel, Imperium, Interpretation
Paul and Politics: Ekklesia, Israel, Imperium, Interpretation
Paul and Politics: Ekklesia, Israel, Imperium, Interpretation Summary:
By Richard A. Horsley
Publisher:
Trinity Press International
Number Of Pages:
260
Publication Date:
2000-11-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:
1563383233
ISBN-13 / EAN:
9781563383236
Contents:
Krister Stendahl's challenge to Pauline studies / Richard A. Horsley
Paul and the politics of empire: problems and prospects / Neil Elliott
Paul and the politics of interpretation / Elisabeth Scheussler Fiorenza
Response: exegetical support from Romans and other letters / Robert Jewett
Rhetoric and empire and 1 Corinthians / Richard A. Horsley
Corinthian women prophets and Paul's argumentation in 1 Corinthians / Cynthia Briggs Kittredge
Paul on bondage and freedom in imperial Roman society / Sheila Briggs
Response: the politics of the assembly in Corinth / Antoinette Clark Wire
Paul as the new Abraham / Pamela Eisenbaum
Inter- and intra-Jewish political context of Paul's letter to the Galatians / Mark D. Nanos
Paul's gospel and Caesar's empire / N.T. Wright
Response: some aspects of conversion and identity formation in the Christian community of Paul's time / Alan F. Segal
Collection for the saints as anticolonial act: implications of Paul's ethnic reconstruction / Sze-kar Wan
Paul, EKKLESIA, and emancipation in Corinth: a coda on liberation theology / Allen Dwight Callahan
Response: Paul and those outside power / Antoinette Clark Wire
Response: how anti-imperial was the collection and how emancipatory was Paul's project? / Calvin J. Roetzel
From the book cover:
"This collection of essays is a welcome publication that appropriately nuances and advances the provocative challenges—about Paul and many other topics—that we have long associated with the voice and writings of Krister Stendahl. —Vincent L Wimbush, Union Theological Seminary
" . . . splendid essays by many of the leading lights of progressive Pauline scholarship in the generation [Krister Stendahl] taught. The book makes an important and coherent statement." —Daniel Boyarin, University of California at Berkeley
Generating new insights into Paul's letters, this fine collection of essays challenges traditional Pauline scholarship. While the conventional view of Paul is that he was concerned primarily with narrowly personal religious issues and that he avoided political and social issues, the contributors to this volume argue that Paul's central concerns in his letters are political and not religious. The essays deal in provocative fashion with several interrelated topics regarding Paul and politics: Paul and the politics of interpretation; Paul and the politics of the Roman Empire; Paul and the politics of Israel (relations of Jews and Gentiles); and Paul and the politics of the churches (relations of women and men, slaves and free).
Contributors include: Krister Stendahl; Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza; Richard A. Horsley; Alan Segal; Antoinette Wire; N.T. Wright; Sheila Briggs; Cynthia Kittredge; Pamela Eisenbaum; Mark Nanos; Allen Callahan; Sze-kar Wan; Robert Jewett; and Neil Elliott.
Richard A. Horsley is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts Boston and is the author of numerous books including Paul and Empire: Religion and Power in Roman Imperial Society (Trinity Press).
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