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Author Rudolph, David J

Title A Jew to the Jews : Jewish contours of Pauline flexibility in 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 / David J. Rudolph
Published Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 290 pages)
Series Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe, 0340-9570 ; 304
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe ; 304. 0340-9570
Contents Preface -- Introduction -- Part I.A Reassessment of the traditional view of 1 Cor 9:19-23 -- Intertextual issues : understanding Paul's Jewishness in relation to being in Christ -- Contextual issues : Paul's stance on food offered to idols (1 Cor 8:1-11:1) -- Textual issues : variations on the setting and language of 1 Cor 9:19-23 -- Part II. A proposed interpretation of 1 Cor 9:19-23 -- Imitating Christ's accommodation and open table-fellowship -- Conclusion and implications
Summary HauptbeschreibungDavid Rudolph's primary aim is to demonstrate that scholars overstate their case when they maintain that 1 Cor 9:19-23 is incompatible with a Torah-observant Paul. A secondary aim is to show how one might understand 1 Cor 9:19-23 as the discourse of a Jew who remained within the bounds of pluriform Second Temple Judaism. Part I addresses the intertextual, contextual and textual case for the traditional reading of 1 Cor 9:19-23. Weaknesses are pointed out and alternative approaches are considered. The exegetical case in Part II centres on interpreting 1 Cor 9:19-23 in light of
Notes Updated version of a doctoral thesis completed at Cambridge University in 2007
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-257) and indexes
SUBJECT Bible. Corinthians, 1st -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Corinthians, 1st fast
Subject Jews in the New Testament.
Jews in the New Testament
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3161516478
1280045086
9781280045080
9783161516474