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This book is a controversial new biography of the apostle Paul that argues for his inclusion in the pantheon of key figures of classical antiquity, along with the likes of Socrates, Alexander the Great, Cleopatra and Augustus. It first provides a critical reassessment of the apostle's life in its historical context that focuses on Paul's discourse of authority, which was both representative of its Roman context and provocative to his rivals within Roman society. It then considers the legend that developed around Paul as the history of his life was elaborated and embellished by later interpreters, creating legends that characterized the apostle variously as a model citizen, an imperial hero, a sexual role model, an object of derision and someone to quote from. It is precisely this rewriting of Paul's history into legend that makes the apostle a key transformative figure of classical antiquity.

Paul [Apostle] --- 227*0 --- Leven van Paulus --- Paul, --- Pavel, --- Pavol, --- Paulus von Tarsus, --- Paulos, --- Pōghos, --- Paweł, --- Paweł z Tarsu, --- Būlus, --- Pablo, --- Paulo de Tarso, --- Paolo di Tarso, --- Pál, --- Apostolos Paulos --- Saul, --- القديس بولس الرسول --- بولس، --- 사도바울 --- History --- Romeinse oudheid. --- Receptie. --- General. --- Paulus, --- 227*0 Leven van Paulus --- Pawełm --- Paulo, --- Paolo, --- Arts and Humanities

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This book looks in detail at Paul's description of apostles in 1 Corinthians 4 and 9 as divinely appointed administrators (oikonomoi) and considers what this tells us about the nature of his own apostolic authority. John Goodrich investigates the origin of this metaphor in light of ancient regal, municipal and private administration, initially examining the numerous domains in which oikonomoi were appointed in the Graeco-Roman world, before situating the image in the private commercial context of Roman Corinth. Examining the social and structural connotations attached to private commercial administration, Goodrich contemplates what Paul's metaphor indicates about apostleship in general terms as well as how he uses the image to defend his apostolic rights. He also analyses the purpose and limits of Paul's authority - how it is constructed, asserted and contested - by examining when and how Paul uses and refuses to exercise the rights inherent in his position.

Authority --- Apostles --- Biblical teaching. --- Paul, --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 227.1*2 --- Disciples, Twelve --- Christian saints --- Apostolic succession --- Political science --- Authoritarianism --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Brieven van Paulus aan de Corinthiërs --- Pavel, --- Pavol, --- Paulus von Tarsus, --- Paulos, --- Pōghos, --- Paweł, --- Paweł z Tarsu, --- Būlus, --- Pablo, --- Paulo de Tarso, --- Paolo di Tarso, --- Pál, --- Apostolos Paulos --- Saul, --- القديس بولس الرسول --- بولس، --- 사도바울 --- 1 Corinthians (Book of the New Testament) --- First Corinthians (Book of the New Testament) --- 227.1*2 Brieven van Paulus aan de Corinthiërs --- Biblical teaching --- Paulus, --- Pawełm --- Paulo, --- Paolo, --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- Authority - Biblical teaching. --- Apostles - Biblical teaching. --- Paul, - the Apostle, Saint.

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What does it mean to study Paul the Apostle as Jew, Greek, and Roman? The framing of the question exposes the fact that the distinctions themselves involve a complex of ethnic, social, and cultural designations. Paul is both a complicated individual of the ancient world, because he combines in his one personage features of life in each of these cultural-ethnic (and even religious) areas of the ancient world, and one of many people of that world who evidenced such complexity. This volume, Paul: Jew, Greek, and Roman, explores a number of the important and diverse cultural, ethnic, and religious dimensions of the multi-faceted background of Paul the Apostle. Some of the treatments are focused and specific, while others range over the broad issues that go to making up the world of the Apostle.

Paul, --- 227*0 --- Leven van Paulus --- Pavel, --- Pavol, --- Paulus von Tarsus, --- Paulos, --- Pōghos, --- Paweł, --- Paweł z Tarsu, --- Būlus, --- Pablo, --- Paulo de Tarso, --- Paolo di Tarso, --- Pál, --- Apostolos Paulos --- Saul, --- القديس بولس الرسول --- بولس، --- 사도바울 --- 227*0 Leven van Paulus --- Bible. --- Epistles of Paul --- Paul, Epistles of --- Paul Sŏsin --- Pauline epistles --- Risālat al-Qiddīs Būlus al-rasūl al-thāniyah ilá Tīmūthīʼūs --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Theology. --- Paul [Apostle] --- Paulus, --- Pawełm --- Paulo, --- Paolo, --- Paul, - the Apostle, Saint

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Die Studie nimmt die bisherige Diskussion der Konversion in der Antike neu auf durch eine Verknüpfung von klassischen, epigraphischen und biblischen Quellen mit einer sozialwissenschaftlichen Methodologie. Der Autor hinterfragt dabei die bisher vorausgesetzte psychologische Kontinuität zwischen antiken und modernen Menschen und bietet statt dessen ein Modell, welches an den Denkvoraussetzungen der Antike selbst gebildet wurde. Die griechisch-römischen und mediterranen Religionen und Philosophien - also auch das hellenistische Judentum und das Christentum - orientierten sich an den Modellen von Patronat und Loyalität. Das Verständnis der antiken Konversion muss also hier ansetzen. In diesem Zusammenhang wird auch die "Bekehrung" des Paulus neu gedeutet. This monograph challenges the dominant psychological assumptions that attend modern treatments of ancient conversion and offers in its place a model based on categories the ancients themselves used: patronage and loyalty.

Psychologie en godsdienst --- Psychologie et religion --- Psychology and religion --- Religion and psychology --- Conversion --- Patron and client --- God --- Worship and love --- Paul, --- 292 --- Godsdiensten van Grieken en Romeinen. Klassieke mythologie --- Paul --- Psychology --- Christianity --- Rome --- Greece --- worship and love --- History of doctrines --- Clientela --- Clientelism --- Patronage, Roman --- Religious conversion --- Pavel, --- Pavol, --- Paulus von Tarsus, --- Paulos, --- Pōghos, --- Paweł, --- Paweł z Tarsu, --- Būlus, --- Pablo, --- Paulo de Tarso, --- Paolo di Tarso, --- Pál, --- Apostolos Paulos --- Saul, --- القديس بولس الرسول --- بولس، --- 사도바울 --- Conversion. --- Religion --- Love --- Worship --- Psychology, Religious --- Proselytizing --- Paulus, --- Pawełm --- Paulo, --- Paolo, --- Psychology and religion. --- Christianity. --- Worship and love. --- Patron and client - Rome --- Patron and client - Greece --- God - Worship and love --- Paul, - the Apostle, Saint - Conversion --- Paul, - the Apostle, Saint

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Following recent intertextual studies, Kyle B. Wells examines how descriptions of ‘heart-transformation’ in Deut 30, Jer 31–32 and Ezek 36 informed Paul and his contemporaries' articulations about grace and agency. Beyond advancing our understanding of how these restoration narratives were interpreted in the LXX, the Dead Sea Literature, Baruch, Jubilees, 2 Baruch, 4 Ezra, and Philo, Wells demonstrates that while most Jews in this period did not set divine and human agency in competition with one another, their constructions differed markedly and this would have contributed to vehement disagreements among them. While not sui generis in every respect, Paul's own convictions about grace and agency appear radical due to the way he reconfigures these concepts in relation to Christ.

Grace (Theology) --- Grâce (Théologie) --- Biblical teaching --- Enseignement biblique --- Paul, --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Relation to the Old Testament. --- Theology --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Relation to the Old Testament --- Grâce (Théologie) --- 234.13 --- Genade tegenover verdienste:--natuur en voorwaarden; glorie; uitboeting voor zonden --- Epistles of Paul --- Paul, Epistles of --- Paul Sŏsin --- Pauline epistles --- Risālat al-Qiddīs Būlus al-rasūl al-thāniyah ilá Tīmūthīʼūs --- 234.13 Genade tegenover verdienste:--natuur en voorwaarden; glorie; uitboeting voor zonden --- 227.08 --- 227.08 Paulinische theologie --- Paulinische theologie --- Pavel, --- Pavol, --- Paulus von Tarsus, --- Paulos, --- Pōghos, --- Paweł, --- Paweł z Tarsu, --- Būlus, --- Pablo, --- Paulo de Tarso, --- Paolo di Tarso, --- Pál, --- Apostolos Paulos --- Saul, --- القديس بولس الرسول --- بولس، --- 사도바울 --- Theology. --- Paulus, --- Pawełm --- Paulo, --- Paolo, --- Biblical teaching. --- Paul, - the Apostle, Saint - Theology --- Grace (Theology) - Biblical teaching --- Paul, - the Apostle, Saint