Paul and the Gentile Problem

by Matthew Thiessen

Book Overview

Paul and the Gentile Problem provides a new explanation for the apostle Paul's statements about the Jewish law in his letters to the Romans and Galatians. Paul's arguments against circumcision and the law in Romans 2 and his reading of Genesis 15-21 in Galatians 4:21-31 belong within a stream of Jewish thinking which rejected the possibility that gentiles could undergo circumcision and adopt the Jewish law, thereby becoming Jews. Paul opposes this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190889187
• ISBN13: 9780190889180
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"