Tag: Paul

The Unique Ways τὲ καί Clarifies Paul’s Audience in Romans
By itself, τὲ καί can’t indicate whom Paul addresses in Romans. But when assembled with other data points, this phrase implies these addressees were gentiles.
27 November 2023
How to Understand “Baptism for the Dead” according to the Earliest Interpreters of 1 Corinthians 15:29
The “proxy baptism” interpretation of 1 Cor 15:29 arises early. To it, various responses emerge as authors grapple with competing traditions.
10 July 2023
Research on (Re)writing Prophets in the Corinthian Correspondence
If hermeneutics of “rewritten Bible” are highlighted, it’s easier to compare these texts and their hermeneutics with Paul’s interpretive work.
7 September 2020
Confused or Intrigued with Second Temple Hermeneutics?
“Sacred Texts and Paradigmatic Revolutions” illustrates how modern readers can work to recover Second Temple interpretive contexts.
31 August 2020
Audience and Predestination in the Letter to the Romans
A perennial question in the interpretation of Paul’s letter to the Romans is what testimony the letter bears on the issue of predestination.1 Especially in the last few decades, the identity of the letter’s implied audience has also become more of a live question. Discussing These Difficulties I recently had the opportunity to sit down…
27 July 2020
Growth in the Land(s) Promised to Abraham
Scholars often connect Ben Sira and Paul when discussing Abraham as “heir of the world.” But other Second Temple interpreters use the same reading strategy.
20 July 2020