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Jacob Taubes radically changed our conceptions of Paul the apostle. Loland shows how we can approach Paul’s letters with the distinctive perspective of this Jewish rabbi steeped in continental philosophy. The book emphasizes Paul’s Jewishness as well as the political explosiveness of the apostle’s revolutionary doctrine of the cross, which the author terms Pauline Ugliness.

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Introduction | 1
1 The Historical and the Philosophical: A Contemporary Scene | 13
2 Jacob Taubes’s Path to Paul: From the Eschatologist to the Paulinist | 22
3 Paul and Philosophy: Taubes’s Contradictory Paul | 52
4 Paul as Predecessor to Psychoanalysis: Taubes’s Introspective Paul | 100
5 Paul against Empire: Taubes’s Political Paul | 140
Conclusion | 177
Acknowledgments | 185
Notes | 187
Bibliography | 219
Index of Biblical References | 229
General Index | 231

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 04/02/2020
      ISBN13: 9780823286546, 978-0823286546
      ISBN10: 0823286541

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Jacob Taubes radically changed our conceptions of Paul the apostle. Loland shows how we can approach Paul’s letters with the distinctive perspective of this Jewish rabbi steeped in continental philosophy. The book emphasizes Paul’s Jewishness as well as the political explosiveness of the apostle’s revolutionary doctrine of the cross, which the author terms Pauline Ugliness.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction | 1
      1 The Historical and the Philosophical: A Contemporary Scene | 13
      2 Jacob Taubes’s Path to Paul: From the Eschatologist to the Paulinist | 22
      3 Paul and Philosophy: Taubes’s Contradictory Paul | 52
      4 Paul as Predecessor to Psychoanalysis: Taubes’s Introspective Paul | 100
      5 Paul against Empire: Taubes’s Political Paul | 140
      Conclusion | 177
      Acknowledgments | 185
      Notes | 187
      Bibliography | 219
      Index of Biblical References | 229
      General Index | 231

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