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When Paul Met Jesus: How an Idea Got Lost in History
Contributor(s): Porter, Stanley E. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1107127963     ISBN-13: 9781107127968
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $114.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Biblical Studies - New Testament - General
Dewey: 225.92
LCCN: 2015025185
Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.11" W x 9.34" L (1.02 lbs) 228 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
Features: Bibliography, Bilingual, Index
 
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Did Paul ever meet Jesus and hear him teach? A century ago, a curious assortment of scholars - William Ramsay, Johannes Weiss, and James Hope Moulton - thought that he had. Since then, their idea has virtually disappeared from New Testament scholarship, to be revived in this monograph. When Paul Met Jesus is an exercise in both biblical exegesis and intellectual history. After examining the positive arguments raised, it considers the negative influence of Ferdinand Christian Baur, William Wrede, and Rudolf Bultmann on such an idea, as they drove a growing wedge between Jesus and Paul. In response, Stanley E. Porter analyzes three passages in the New Testament - Acts 9:1-9 and its parallels, 1 Corinthians 9:1, and 2 Corinthians 5:16 - to confirm that there is New Testament evidence that Paul encountered Jesus. The implications of this discovery are then explored in important Pauline passages that draw Jesus and Paul back together again.

Contributor Bio(s): Porter, Stanley E.: - Stanley E. Porter is President, Dean, Professor of New Testament, and Roy A. Hope Chair in Christian Worldview at McMaster Divinity College, Ontario. He has written and edited numerous books, and his recent publications include Linguistic Analysis of the Greek New Testament: Studies in Tools, Methods, and Practice and Paul and Ancient Rhetoric: Theory and Practice in the Hellenistic Context (with Bryan R. Dyer, Cambridge, forthcoming).
 
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