Paul and Politics Ekklesia, Israel, Imperium,

A provocative analysis of interrelated issues in Paul's letters, including his views on the Roman Empire, the politics of Israel, and politics and the church.

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Introduction: Krister Stendahl's Challenge to Pauline Studies

1

(16)

Richard A. Horsley

Paul and The Politics of Empire: Problems and Prospects

17

(23)

Neil Elliott

Paul and the Politics of Interpretation

40

(18)

Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Response: Exegetical Support from Romans and Other Letters

58

(14)

Robert Jewett

Rhetoric and Empire-and 1 Corinthians

72

(31)

Richard A. Horsley

Corinthian Women Prophets and Paul's Argumentation in 1 Corinthians

103

(7)

Cynthia Briggs Kittredge

Paul on Bondage and Freedom in Imperial Roman Society

110

(14)

Sheila Briggs

Response: The Politics of the Assembly in Corinth

124

(6)

Antoinette Clark Wire

Paul as the New Abraham

130

(16)

Pamela Eisenbaum

The Inter- and Intra-Jewish Political Context of Paul's Letter to the Galatians

146

(14)

Mark D. Nanos

Paul's Gospel and Caesar's Empire

160

(24)

N. T. Wright

Response: Some Aspects of Conversion and Identity Formation in the Christian Community of Paul's Time

184

(7)

Alan F. Segal

Collection for the Saints as Anticolonial Act: Implications of Paul's Ethnic Reconstruction

191

(25)

Sze-kar Wan

Paul, Ekklesia, and Emancipation in Corinth: A Coda on Liberation Theology

216

(8)

Allen Dwight Callahan

Response: Paul and Those Outside Power

224

(3)

Antoinette Clark Wire

Response: How Anti-Imperial Was the Collection and How Emancipatory Was Paul's Project?

227

(4)

Calvin J. Roetzel

Contributors

231

(2)

Scripture Index

233

(8)

General Index

241

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Paul and Politics Ekklesia, Israel, Imperium, Interpretation

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