Chapter 10: Paul the Jew
Paul has been and continues to be a battle ground for Jews and Christians. Six books that reclaim Paul as a Jew.
Paul in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Martin Buber. Judaism and Christianity are two different kinds of religions.
Leo Baeck.
Paul at Mid-Century
H. J. Schoeps. Wrote that when Paul asserted the divinity of Christ, he stepped outside of Judaism since there was no belief in a diving Messiah.
Samual Sandmel. He believed that Paul was essentially Jewish but bercasue of where he was it was not Palestinian Judaism.
New Perspective for Jews and Christians.
Stendahl and Sanders fundamentally changed the way Paul was perceived .
Alan Segal. Segal had a more sympathetic view of Paul than many Jewish scholars.
Daniel Boyarin. Another generally positive view of Paul.
Mark Nanos. A KU professor. He believes Paul was a good practicing Jew and expected Jewish Christians to remain practicing Jews.
Pamela Eisenbaum. Another view of Paul
Assessing the Jewish Paul.
Jewish scholarship on Paul is a good thing for Christianity.