Boyarin, Daniel.

A radical Jew : Paul and the politics of identity / Daniel Boyarin. - Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, c1994. - xi, 366 p. ; pbk ; 24 cm. - Contraversions ; 1. . - Contraversions ; 1. .

Paperback printing, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-357) and index.

Introduction: Wrestling with Paul -- 1. Circumcision, Allegory, and Universal "Man" -- 2. What Was Wrong with Judaism? The Cultural Politics of Pauline Scholarship -- 3. The Spirit and the Flesh: Paul's Political Anthropology -- 4. Moses' Veil; or, The Jewish Letter, the Christian Spirit -- 5. Circumcision and Revelation; or, The Politics of the Spirit -- 6. Was Paul an "Anti-Semite"? -- 7. Brides of Christ: Jewishness and the Pauline Origins of Christian Sexual Renunciation -- 8. "There Is No Male and Female": Galatians and Gender Trouble -- 9. Paul, the "Jewish Problem," and the "Woman Question" -- 10. Answering the Mail: Toward a Radical Jewishness.



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Paul the Apostle, Saint --Conversion.
Paul the Apostle, Saint --Jewish interpretations.


Bible.--Epistles of Paul--Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible.--Epistles of Paul--Criticism, interpretation, etc


Judaism (Christian theology)--History of doctrines--Early church, approximately 30-600.

Christianity Scriptures

BS2506 / .B68 1994 BS2506 / .B68 1994

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