Presbyterians Read: Paul, His Letters and Anti-Judaism
Reading Paul’s letters through the lens of John Gager’s book The Jewish Lives of the Apostle Paul disputes the view of Paul as an enemy of Judaism
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Reading John Gager’s Who Made Early Christianity? The Jewish Lives of the Apostle Paul helps contextualize the emerging church of the first century CE within Judaism in the Roman Empire and to address the problem of Paul’s writings in the history of anti-Judaism. This background provides new perspectives on Paul’s letters to the Galatians and the Romans as writings of inclusion rather than the beginning statements of Christian triumphalism.
