Paul the Jew Under Roman Rule: Collected Essays - Hardcover

by Neil Elliott (Author)

Some of the most heated contests around the apostle Paul today concern the effort to understand him wholly "within Judaism," and the effort to interpret him over against the culture and ideology of the early Roman Empire. In this collection of essays, Neil Elliott shows that these two conversations belong together and must be resolved together, by understanding Paul as a Jew living out Israel's ancient hopes under the pressures of Roman imperial power.

Author Biography

Neil Elliott is an Episcopal priest and a New Testament scholar (PhD Princeton Theological Seminary) with particular interests in the political interpretation of scripture. He has taught biblical studies, early Christian history, and American civil religion at the College of St. Catherine and Metropolitan State University, and served as priest at the University Episcopal Center and St. Paul's on the Hill in the Twin Cities. His publications include The Rhetoric of Romans: Argumentative Constraint and Strategy and Paul's Dialogue with Judaism (1990), Liberating Paul: The Justice of God and the Politics of the Apostle (1994), The Arrogance of Nations: Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire (2008), and, with Mark Reasoner, Documents and Images for the Study of Paul (2010).