TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lee,Jae Won
TI  - Paul and the politics of difference: a contextual study of the Jewish-Gentile difference in Galatians and Romans 
SN  - 9781625648242
AV  - BS2651 .L42 2014
U1  - 227.06 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Eugene, Oregon
PB  - Pickwick Publications
KW  - Paul,
KW  - Bible
KW  - Galatians
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Romans
KW  - Jews in the New Testament
KW  - Gentiles in the New Testament
N1  - Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Union Theological Seminary, 2001; Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192); Paul lies at the core of the constant debate about the opposition between Christianity and Judaism both in biblical interpretation and public discourse. The so-called new perspective on Paul has not offered a significant break from the formidable paradigm of Christian universalism versus Jewish particularism in Pauline scholarship. This book liberates Paul from the Western logic of identity and its dominant understanding of difference.Drawing attention to the currency of discourses on difference in contemporary theories as well as in biblical studies, the author critically examines the hermeneutical relevance of a contextual and relational understanding of difference. He applies it to interpret the dynamics of Jew-Gentile difference reflected particularly in meal practices (Gal 2:1-21 and Rom 14:1-15:13) of early Christian communities.Paul and the Politics of Difference argues that by deconstructing the hierarchy of social relations underlying the Jew-Gentile difference in different community situations, Paul promotes a politics of difference. This affirms a preferential option for the socially ‘weak'– solidarity with the weak. Paul's politics of difference is invoked as the potential for liberation in a vision of egalitarian justice in the face of contemporary globalism's proliferation of difference
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