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Reimagining Paul as a man at the margins of Roman society and early Christianity. While Paul the apostle is often imag

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Recovering an Undomesticated Apostle: Essays on the Legacy of Paul
 9780228017721

Table of contents :
Cover
RECOVERING AN UNDOMESTICATED APOSTLE
Title
Copyright
Contents
Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
PART ONE: INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Prelude: Another Paul Is Possible
Introduction: Chipping Away at a Domesticated Paul
PART TWO: PAUL’S PRECARIOUS LIFE
1 “Whoever Boasts, Should Boast in the Lord” (2 Cor. 10:17): What Does It Mean to “Boast in the Lord”?
2 Paul the Manual Labourer: Rereading 1 Cor. 9:1–18
3 Acts and the Invention of Paul’s “Prison” Letters
4 Three Times Beaten with Rods/Tres veces golpeado con varas: A Reflection on 2 Cor. 11:21b–33
5 Who Saw Any of This Coming? Response to Schmeller, Jones, Zeichmann, and Limongi and Egger
PART THREE: PAUL’S UNDOMESTICATED GOSPEL
6 “Which Is Not Another”: Paul’s Precarious Gospel in Gal. 1:6–7
7 Biblical Cartography and the Master Narrative of Paul’s Mission
8 Hidden Wisdom: The “Solid Food” Paul Reserved for “the Mature” (1 Cor.2:6–3:4)
9 “Assembled with One Accord in Jerusalem”: Response to Egger, Guijarro, and Brown
PART FOUR: PAUL ON MATTERS “DOMESTIC”: GENDER AND BODIES
10 The Devolution of Paul’s Relationship with the Corinthian Women: The Incongruence between Paul’s Apostolic Defence and His Instructions to Women
11 Where Did the Horse Come From? Caravaggio and Paul’s Conversion as a Bodily Experience
12 The Pauline ekklesia as Third Space
13 The Body as Space of Resistance: Response to Johnson, Moxnes, and Gil Arbiol
PART FIVE: DOMESTICATION OF PAUL’S “VOICE”
14 On Pauline Indeterminacy
15 Whodunnit? Paul’s Peculiar Passion and Its Implications
16 Imperialization of the Remains: How Church Fathers Standardized the Pauline Corpus
17 A Useless Apostle: Response to Schellenberg, Droge, and Williams
PART SIX: CONCLUDING REMARKS
Conclusion: Recovering Paul, the Undomesticated Apostle
Denouement: Last Man Leif
Contributors
Index

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