Paul and Judaism at the End of History
Novenson, Matthew V.
- 出版商: Cambridge
- 出版日期: 2024-12-19
- 售價: $1,650
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- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 350
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 1316519848
- ISBN-13: 9781316519844
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The apostle Paul was a Jew. He was born, lived, undertook his apostolic work, and died within the milieu of ancient Judaism. And yet, many readers have found, and continue to find, Paul's thought so radical, so Christian, even so anti-Jewish - despite the fact that it, too, is Jewish through and through. This paradox, and the question how we are to explain it, are the foci of Matthew Novenson's groundbreaking book. The solution, says the author, lies in Paul's particular understanding of time. This too is altogether Jewish, with the twist that Paul sees the end of history as present, not future. In the wake of Christ's resurrection, Jews are perfected in righteousness and - like the angels - enabled to live forever, in fulfilment of God's ancient promises to the patriarchs. What is more, gentiles are included in the same pneumatic existence promised to the Jews. This peculiar combination of ethnicity and eschatology yields something that looks not quite like Judaism or Christianity as we are used to thinking of them.
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使徒保羅是一位猶太人。他在古代猶太教的環境中出生、生活、從事使徒工作,並在其中去世。然而,許多讀者發現,並且繼續發現,保羅的思想如此激進,如此基督教,甚至如此反猶太 - 儘管事實上,它也是完全猶太的。這種矛盾,以及我們如何解釋它的問題,是馬修·諾文森的開創性著作的焦點。作者認為,解決之道在於保羅對時間的特殊理解。這也完全是猶太的,但保羅將歷史的終結視為現在,而非未來。在基督復活之後,猶太人在義的完全中得到完善,並且 - 像天使一樣 - 被賦予永生的能力,實現上帝對祖先的古老應許。更重要的是,外邦人也被納入了應許給猶太人的同樣的靈性存在中。這種特殊的種族和末世論的結合產生了一種看起來不完全像我們習慣於思考的猶太教或基督教的東西。