Radical Jew Paul and the Politics of Identity

Name: Radical Jew Paul and the Politics of Identity
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ISBN: 9780520212145

ISBN-10: 0520212142

ISBN-13: 9780520212145

Edition: 1994

Authors: Daniel Boyarin

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Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. What led Paul--in his dramatic conversion to Christianity--to such a radical critique of Jewish culture? Paul's famous formulation, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, no male and female in Christ," demonstrates the genius of Christianity: its concern for all people. The genius of Judaism is its validation of genealogy and cultural, ethnic difference. But the evils of these two thought systems are the obverse of their geniuses: Christianity has threatened to coerce universality, while ethnic difference is one of the most troubled issues in modern history. Boyarin posits a…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/11/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 380
Size: 7.17" wide x 8.98" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Wrestling with Paul



Circumcision, Allegory, and Universal "Man"



What Was Wrong with Judaism? The Cultural Politics of Pauline Scholarship



The Spirit and the Flesh: Paul's Political Anthropology



Moses' Veil; or, The Jewish Letter, the Christian Spirit



Circumcision and Revelation; or, The Politics of the Spirit



Was Paul an "Anti-Semite"?



Brides of Christ: Jewishness and the Pauline Origins of Christian Sexual Renunciation



"There Is No Male and Female": Galatians and Gender Trouble



Paul, the "Jewish Problem," and the "Woman Question"



Answering the Mail: Toward a Radical Jewishness


Notes


Bibliography


Index