Description
Book SynopsisA 'big' book with a bold new idea: Paul's gospel with its inclusion of the Gentiles directly relates to the salvation of Israel promised in the Hebrew Bible. Providing a better understanding of the 'parting of the ways' between Christianity and Judaism, the book boldly transforms understandings of Christian origins.
Trade Review'Staples urges his novel interpretation of Paul with energy, patience, and conviction - leavened periodically with both wit and humor. His work puts a challenge to most current Pauline scholarship of whatever persuasion. It is a fitting follow up to The Idea of Israel, in many ways Part II: Paul's Idea of Israel. And it represents an original and bracing reading of Paul.' Paul Fredrickson, Boston University
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Jews, former Gentiles, Israelites; 1. The God of Jews only?; 2. Paul and the Israel problem; 3. The Israel problem and the Gentiles; 4. Salvation through justification: Jews and Gentiles alike; 5. 'Not My People': Israel's infidelity and God's fidelity; 6. God's justice and the end of the Torah; 7. The mystery of Israel's salvation; 8. The end of the matter.
