1. Re-Imagining the Period of Christian Origins
2. The Hermeneutics of Antithesis: The Reception of Paul in
Contrast to Judaism
3. Universality via Particularity
4. Association and Interaction with Judaism by Paul and His
Communities
5. Paul and the Recognition of Ethnic Distinctiveness
6. The Hermeneutics of Commonality and Comparison in 2 Corinthians
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7. The Faithfulness of God, the Remnant, and the Ethnē
8. Ethnē in Christ and Their Relation to Israel
9. Participation in Christ and the Transformation of Identity
10. Covenantal Hermeneutics in Paul
William S. Campbell has taught biblical studies at Westhill College, Selly Oak, Birmingham, and the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David.
Campbell’s ambitious book critically engages Paul’s own texts, the
giants of twentieth-century Pauline scholarship, and the very
latest research on ethnicity, diversity, and community in Paul’s
world. At once passionately felt and deeply irenic, The Nations in
the Divine Economy champions both a nuanced historical portrait of
the apostle and a morally lucid theology of his letters, bridging
the religious studies/ divinity divide.
*Paula Fredriksen, author of Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle*
This is vintage Bill Campbell. He fine-tunes and develops his
long-held thesis of the positive place of Israel in Paul by
emphasizing three major contexts: the historical context of Paul’s
epistles, the context of the history of interpretation with its
inevitable impact on the interpretation of Paul, and our modern
context in which Campbell demonstrates post-Holocaust sensitivities
and resists anti-Judaism and supercessionism. He leaves few stones
unturned in his comprehensive refutations of potential objections
from other interpreters of Paul.
*Robert L. Brawley, McCormick Theological Seminary*
In this important and timely book, William S. Campbell, well-known
for his insightful work on Paul, combines historical, theological,
and socio-scientific approaches in a constructive way to shed new
light on Paul’s covenantal hermeneutics. A must read for all
scholars of the historical Paul and the Pauline literature, the
significance of the book is not limited to the scholarly world.
Reconstructing the Pauline message, The Nations in the Divine
Economy also speaks perceptively to issues of critical importance
to those seeking mutual respect and understanding between Jews and
Christians today. This is an eminently readable study engaging key
questions related to continuity in the Jewish and Christian
reality, written from a historically sound and theologically
inspiring perspective. Highly recommended!
*Anders Runesson, University of Oslo*
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