Obedient Gentiles and Jealous Jews: A Fresh Interpretation of Paul's Aim in Romans 11.11-14
Scholars have long been perplexed by Paul's statement in Rom. 11.11-14 that he magnifies his ministry to make Jews jealous and thus save some of them. After all, why would law-observant Jews be jealous of the salvation of supposedly law-free Gentiles? The problem is accentuated when we recogniz...
| Published in: | Journal for the study of the New Testament |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2018]
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Journal for the study of the New Testament
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bibel. Römerbrief 11,11-14
/ Philo, Alexandrinus 25 v. Chr.-40
/ Josephus, Flavius 37-100
/ Juden
/ Heidenchrist
/ Gesetz (Theologie)
/ Eifersucht
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations HC New Testament HD Early Judaism NCA Ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Law
B Josephus B Romans B Jealousy B Philo B Paul |
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| Summary: | Scholars have long been perplexed by Paul's statement in Rom. 11.11-14 that he magnifies his ministry to make Jews jealous and thus save some of them. After all, why would law-observant Jews be jealous of the salvation of supposedly law-free Gentiles? The problem is accentuated when we recognize that 'jealousy' (parazēlōsis) and its cognate 'zeal' (zēlos) were connected with law-observance in Second Temple Judaism. To solve this problem, I consider how two contemporaries of Paul - Philo and Josephus - describe Gentiles' attraction to Judaism through the Jews' careful obedience to the Law. I argue in turn that Paul christologically reverses this schema such that the Gentiles' obedience to the law by faith, the very goal of Paul's apostleship (1.5; 15.18), is the means by which Paul hopes to provoke the Jews to jealousy and salvation. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5294 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the New Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0142064X18804434 |