{"product_id":"wrestling-with-paul-the-apostle-his-readers-and-the-fate-of-the-jews-9781506485898","title":"Wrestling with Paul: The Apostle, His Readers, and the Fate of the Jews","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Sarah Emanuel, a Jewish scholar of the New Testament, argues that Paul was not a universalist. Instead, Emanuel shows that, stemming from his Hellenistic Jewish worldview, Paul understood Jews as needing to maintain the law in Christ and gentiles as needing to abstain from the law in Christ. Both groups, in other words, needed to maintain particular ethnic difference in their Christ-following orientations lest they be \"left behind\" from Paul's imagined end of days.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmanuel also argues that the way in which Paul understood these groups was through ethno-nationalistic and hierarchical means. By \"ethno-nationalistic,\" she means that Paul viewed the end of days as a new, Israel-centric nation requiring particular polyethnic-cultural affiliation: Jews for Christ and gentiles for Christ. By \"hierarchical,\" she means that Paul valued Jews for Christ over gentiles for Christ (and also males over females and free persons over enslaved persons); after all, Paul's end of days was itself Israel-centered (i.e., Jewish-centered) with the God of Israel (i.e., the Jewish God) at the helm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinally, none of these beliefs made Paul exceptional in his Judaism. It made him average in his Judaism. \u003cem\u003eWrestling with Paul\u003c\/em\u003e shows that scholars in a post-Holocaust world have often sanitized this ethnocentric exclusivism so as to make Paul ahistorically \"good\" for modern Jews and Judaism. It also shows that readers of Paul have--for millenia--made sense of him in light of contemporaneous attitudes toward Jews.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmanuel, Sarah:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSarah Emanuel\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eHumor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation: Roasting Rome\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and \u003cem\u003eTrauma Theory, Trauma Story: A Narration of Biblical Studies and the World of Trauma \u003c\/em\u003e(Brill, 2021). She lives on the coast with her wife and their many nonhuman animals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fortress Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51735900815634,"sku":"9781506485898","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ab7874e0-6ccb-41cb-b50b-b722c8821e65.jpg?v=1763544766","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wrestling-with-paul-the-apostle-his-readers-and-the-fate-of-the-jews-9781506485898","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}