Paul the Convert: The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee

Paul the Convert: The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee / Alan F. Segal......Page 1
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 4
INTRODUCTION......Page 6
JEWISH HISTORY IN PAUL'S WRITINGS......Page 9
PAUL THE JEW......Page 12
LUKE'S PORTRAIT OF PAUL......Page 13
Paul's Vision of the Kavod According to Luke......Page 18
PAUL'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF......Page 22
PAUL AND LUKE COMPARED......Page 24
ELIMINATING SOME FALSE DICHOTOMIES......Page 26
PAUL AND THE MODERN STUDY OF CONVERSION......Page 30
IMPERIALISM AND CONVERSION......Page 40
PAUL'S MYSTICAL REPORTS......Page 44
APOCALYPTICISM AND MYSTICISM......Page 48
PAUL'S CONVERSION IN LIGHT OF APOCALYPTICISM AND MYSTICISM......Page 49
MERKABAH AND ITS PREDECESSORS......Page 50
THE ECSTATIC DIMENSION OF VISIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS......Page 62
THE MANLIKE FIGURE AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY......Page 66
PAUL'S USE OF MYSTICAL VOCABULARY......Page 68
CHAPTER THREE: CONVERSION IN PAUL'S SOCIETY......Page 82
CONVERSION AND THE STRENGTH OF RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT......Page 85
CONVERSION AND COMMUNITY IN HELLENISTIC JUDAISM......Page 89
CONVERSION AMONG DIASPORA JEWISH GROUPS......Page 94
THE GOD-FEARERS OR SEMI-PROSELYTES TO JUDAISM......Page 103
CONVERSION AMONG THE PHARISEES AND RABBIS......Page 106
PROSELYTISM AFTER THE WAR AGAINST ROME......Page 115
WHY DID JEWS, GREEKS, AND ROMANS CONVERT?......Page 116
Apocalypticism and Millenarianism in Judea......Page 117
Conversions in Diaspora Judaism......Page 118
Messianism and Conversion in Christianity......Page 120
PAUL THE CONVERT......Page 125
CHAPTER FOUR: THE CONSEQUENCES OF CONVERSION: PAUL'S EXEGESIS......Page 127
PAUL'S NEW VOCABULARY OF FAITH: NO RIGHTEOUSNESS BASED ON LAW......Page 135
CONVERSION AND BAPTISM......Page 143
DEATH AND REBIRTH WITHOUT THE LAW......Page 148
PHILIPPIANS 3......Page 150
CONVERSION AND PAULINE COMMUNITY......Page 153
CHAPTER FIVE: PAUL'S NEW CONVERSION COMMUNITY AMONG THE GENTILES......Page 160
PAULINE TRANSFORMATION AS POLEMIC AGAINST LAW......Page 161
PAULINE APOCALYPTICISM......Page 170
APOCALYPTICISM AND MILLENARIANISM IN THESSALONICA......Page 173
PAULINE COMMUNITY......Page 178
COMMANDMENTS AND PURITY LAWS......Page 181
THE HOUSE CHURCH......Page 183
THE EUCHARIST......Page 185
JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH......Page 186
PAUL'S PERSPECTIVE ON THE JERUSALEM CONFERENCE......Page 197
LUKE'S PERSPECTIVE ON THE JERUSALEM CONFERENCE......Page 201
SYNTHESIS......Page 202
GENTILE CIRCUMCISION AND THE NOAHIDE COMMANDMENTS......Page 204
ONE COMMUNITY OF CIRCUMCISED AND UNCIRCUMCISED......Page 211
CIRCUMCISION IN PAUL'S LETTER TO THE GALATIANS......Page 217
CIRCUMCISION AND THE MEANING OF TORAH......Page 220
THE CIRCUMCISION OF TIMOTHY: AN EXERCISE OF IMAGINATION......Page 228
THE PROBLEM OF PAUL'S SON: ANOTHER EXERCISE OF IMAGINATION......Page 231
CHAPTER SEVEN: ROMANS 7 ANDJEWISH DIETARY LAWS......Page 234
PAUL'S JEWISH AUDIENCE......Page 235
THE WEAK AND THE STRONG IN CORINTH......Page 238
THE WEAK AND THE STRONG IN ROMANS AND ELSEWHERE......Page 244
PAUL'S ACCOMMODATIONS......Page 246
PAUL'S CLARIFICATION TO THE GENTILE COMMUNITY......Page 250
ROMANS 7......Page 251
A NEW VOCABULARY FOR DISCUSSING TORAH......Page 256
ROMANS 12......Page 260
PAUL'S CHOICE AND CONFRONTATION......Page 264
ROMANS 1 AND 2......Page 265
THE DIASPORA AND THE SPREAD OF GENTILE CHRISTIANITY......Page 277
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES ON THE PEOPLE OF GOD......Page 284
ROMANS 9-11......Page 286
THE MODERN STUDY OF CONVERSION......Page 295
A CRITICAL VOCABULARY......Page 296
CONVERSION AND GUILT......Page 297
OTHER DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GRADUAL AND RADICAL CONVERTS......Page 298
RECENT STUDIES......Page 299
EMOTIONAL CRISIS IN RADICAL CONVERSIONS......Page 301
RESOCIALIZATION AND STEREOTYPING IN CONVERSIONS......Page 303
PAUL AND THE MODERN STUDY OF CONVERSION......Page 304
CONVERSION AS DECISION MAKING......Page 305
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 311
INTRODUCTION......Page 317
CHAPTER 1. Paul and Luke......Page 318
CHAPTER 2. Paul's Ecstasy......Page 322
CHAPTER 3. Conversion in Paul's Society......Page 335
CHAPTER 4. The Consequences of Conversion: Paul's Exegesis......Page 342
CHAPTER 5. Paul's New Conversion Community Among the Gentiles......Page 346
CHAPTER 6. Circumcision and the Noahide Laws......Page 351
CHAPTER 7. Romans 7 and Jewish Dietary Laws......Page 354
CHAPTER 8. The Salvation of Israel......Page 357
APPENDIX. Paul's Conversion: Psychological Study......Page 359
INDEX OF SCRIPTURAL LITERATURES......Page 363
GENERAL INDEX......Page 372