Past Paul’s Jewishness: The Benjaminite Paul in Epiphanius of Cyprus
Paul’s Jewishness has often acted as a pivot in scholarship about the relationship between Christianity and Judaism, especially in recent conversation about the date and duration of the so-called "Parting of the Ways." Too little attention has been paid, however, to who represented Paul as...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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2022
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Harvard theological review
Année: 2022, Volume: 115, Numéro: 3, Pages: 309-330 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Epiphanius, Constantiensis 315-403
/ Paulus, Apostel, Heiliger
/ Juifs
/ Ethnicité
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| Classifications IxTheo: | BH Judaïsme CC Christianisme et religions non-chrétiennes; relations interreligieuses HC Nouveau Testament KAB Christianisme primitif |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Ethnicity
B Epiphanius B Late Antiquity B Identity B Paul B Jewish |
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| Résumé: | Paul’s Jewishness has often acted as a pivot in scholarship about the relationship between Christianity and Judaism, especially in recent conversation about the date and duration of the so-called "Parting of the Ways." Too little attention has been paid, however, to who represented Paul as Jewish (or not) and why. I examine the late antique reception of Paul’s ethnic identity in Epiphanius of Cyprus, heresiologist, bishop, and someone for whom representation of Jewishness often served as a foil for the manufacture of orthodoxy. I argue that for Epiphanius, when Paul’s ethnic identity is relevant at all, the focus falls on an Israelite, Benjaminite Paul. Paul’s Jewishness becomes peripheral. Building on this observation, I suggest that we must understand even the reification of Jewishness familiar to current scholarship as only one of the late antique Christian behaviors that governed identification as Israelite. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816022000219 |