Currents in the Interpretation of Paul: Collected Essays - Hardcover

by Neil Elliott (Author)

The apostle Paul has long been championed, or criticized, as a Christian thinker, as a brilliant theological genius, or an enthusiastic convert who spun arguments to justify his new allegiances. In these essays, Neil Elliott engages some of the most provocative currents in contemporary scholarship, including Paul and the nature of violence; the presumptions of religious, cultural, or national innocence in particular interpretations of the apostle; the recent enthusiasm for Paul in some streams of Marxist thought; competing construals of economic realities in Paul's day (and our own); and questions surrounding Paul's legacy today.

Author Biography

Neil Elliott is an Episcopal priest and a New Testament scholar with particular interests in the political interpretation of scripture; he has taught biblical studies, early Christian history, and American civil religion at the College of St. Catherine and Metropolitan State University. His publications include The Rhetoric of Romans: Argumentative Constraint and Strategy and Paul's Dialogue with Judaism (1990), Liberating Paul: The Justice of God and the Politics of the Apostle (1994), The Arrogance of Nations: Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire (2008), and, with Mark Reasoner, Documents and Images for the Study of Paul (2010).