JWST 206 - The Apostle Paul within Judaism

FC ARHU CD WINT

4 credits
This course investigates the letters of the apostle Paul and his fraught interpretation from antiquity to present. We will juxtapose three influential versions of Paul: (1) the Paul of the Protestant Reformation who rages against “works of righteousness” and proclaims a universal, nonethnic message of salvation through faith alone; (2) the Paul of the so-called “New Perspective,” who opposes Jewish ethnic particularism in favor of Christian inclusivism; and (3) the Paul of more recent scholarship who is deeply committed to the Jewish law and ethnic essentialism. Theories of race and ethnicity in antiquity and modern scholarship will be central to the course.

This course is cross-listed with RELG-206