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  • 9 - The End of the Law and the Last Man

  • Matthew V. Novenson, Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey
  • Book:
    Paul and Judaism at the End of History
    Published online:
    23 October 2024
    Print publication:
    10 October 2024, pp 209-243

  • Summary

    Paul’s controversial claim that Jesus the messiah is “the end of the law” is directly related to his other, lesser-known claim that Jesus is “the last man,” the last mortal human. After the resurrection of the dead, Paul reasons, the law must change to accommodate the change in the people for whom it legislates.

  • 4 - Paul versus the Gentiles

  • Matthew V. Novenson, Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey
  • Book:
    Paul and Judaism at the End of History
    Published online:
    23 October 2024
    Print publication:
    10 October 2024, pp 77-110

  • Summary

    We know that Paul had some Jewish opponents, and we know that he had some opponents who preached proselyte circumcision. Scholars have usually conflated these two groups, but all the evidence suggests that Paul’s circumcision-preaching opponents were themselves recently circumcised gentile proselytes.

  • 7 - Carnal Israel

  • Matthew V. Novenson, Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey
  • Book:
    Paul and Judaism at the End of History
    Published online:
    23 October 2024
    Print publication:
    10 October 2024, pp 160-186

  • Summary

    Unlike many other later Christian thinkers, Paul never imagines any supposedly “true, spiritual Israel” to contrast with the actual, empirical Israel of which he was a member by birth. He never redefines the terms Israel, Jew, or circumcision, but takes them for granted as conventional ethnonyms.

Paul and Judaism at the End of History
  • Matthew V. Novenson
  • Published online:
    23 October 2024
    Print publication:
    10 October 2024
  • The apostle Paul was a Jew. He was born, lived, undertook his apostolic work, and died within the milieu of ancient Judaism. And yet, many readers have found, and continue to find, Paul's thought so radical, so Christian, even so anti-Jewish – despite the fact that it, too, is Jewish through and through. This paradox, and the question how we are to explain it, are the foci of Matthew Novenson's groundbreaking book. The solution, says the author, lies in Paul's particular understanding of time. This too is altogether Jewish, with the twist that Paul sees the end of history as present, not future. In the wake of Christ's resurrection, Jews are perfected in righteousness and – like the angels – enabled to live forever, in fulfilment of God's ancient promises to the patriarchs. What is more, gentiles are included in the same pneumatic existence promised to the Jews. This peculiar combination of ethnicity and eschatology yields something that looks not quite like Judaism or Christianity as we are used to thinking of them.

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