Obedient Gentiles and Jealous Jews: A Fresh Interpretation of Paul's Aim in Romans 11.11-14
Scholars have long been perplexed by Paul's statement in Rom. 11.11-14 that he magnifies his ministry to make Jews jealous and thus save some of them. After all, why would law-observant Jews be jealous of the salvation of supposedly law-free Gentiles? The problem is accentuated when we recogniz...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2018]
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Journal for the study of the New Testament
Año: 2018, Volumen: 41, Número: 2, Páginas: 161-176 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Bibel. Römerbrief 11,11-14
/ Philo, Alexandrinus 25 a. C.-40
/ Josephus, Flavius 37-100
/ Judíos
/ Cristiano gentío
/ Ley (Teología)
/ Celos
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | BH Judaísmo CC Cristianismo ; Religión no cristiana ; Relaciones inter-religiosas HC Nuevo Testamento HD Judaísmo primitivo NCA Ética |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Law
B Josephus B Romans B Jealousy B Philo B Paul |
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| Sumario: | Scholars have long been perplexed by Paul's statement in Rom. 11.11-14 that he magnifies his ministry to make Jews jealous and thus save some of them. After all, why would law-observant Jews be jealous of the salvation of supposedly law-free Gentiles? The problem is accentuated when we recognize that 'jealousy' (parazēlōsis) and its cognate 'zeal' (zēlos) were connected with law-observance in Second Temple Judaism. To solve this problem, I consider how two contemporaries of Paul - Philo and Josephus - describe Gentiles' attraction to Judaism through the Jews' careful obedience to the Law. I argue in turn that Paul christologically reverses this schema such that the Gentiles' obedience to the law by faith, the very goal of Paul's apostleship (1.5; 15.18), is the means by which Paul hopes to provoke the Jews to jealousy and salvation. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5294 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the New Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0142064X18804434 |