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Jewishness disrupts categories of identity because it is not genealogical, or even religious, but all of these, in dialectical tension with one another. An exploration of these tensions in the Pauline corpus, argues the author lead us to an appreciation of our own cultural quandaries as male and female, gay and straight, Jew and Palestinian.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Wrestling with Paul
I. 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
Notes
Bibliography
Index

A Radical Jew

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 11 November 1997
      ISBN-13 9780520212145
      978-0520212145
      ISBN-10 0520212142
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Jewishness disrupts categories of identity because it is not genealogical, or even religious, but all of these, in dialectical tension with one another. An exploration of these tensions in the Pauline corpus, argues the author lead us to an appreciation of our own cultural quandaries as male and female, gay and straight, Jew and Palestinian.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction: Wrestling with Paul
      I. 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
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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