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Paul and the Non-Ethnic Ethnē
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Chapter 5 singles out one author, the apostle Paul, who offers a novel understanding of the biblical goyim. The chapter goes against the scholarly consensus, according to which Paul simply borrowed his binary distinction between Jews and ethnē from a Jewish tradition. It shows that despite scattered cases in 1 and 2 Maccabees, in which goy is used to refer to indefinite groups of individuals, no such tradition existed. While these texts still preserve the political context of the biblical ethnē, Paul’s ethnē is totally individualized, stripped from any ethnic context. Thus, in Paul’s writing, one finds the first systematic use of a generalized, abstract category of the Jew’s Other. The chapter explains what could have led Paul to develop this discursive formation and discusses the implications. It also considers various ideas about Jews’ others in nascent Christianity and compares them to the rabbinic formation of the goy.
Title: Paul and the Non-Ethnic Ethnē
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Chapter 5 singles out one author, the apostle Paul, who offers a novel understanding of the biblical goyim.
The chapter goes against the scholarly consensus, according to which Paul simply borrowed his binary distinction between Jews and ethnē from a Jewish tradition.
It shows that despite scattered cases in 1 and 2 Maccabees, in which goy is used to refer to indefinite groups of individuals, no such tradition existed.
While these texts still preserve the political context of the biblical ethnē, Paul’s ethnē is totally individualized, stripped from any ethnic context.
Thus, in Paul’s writing, one finds the first systematic use of a generalized, abstract category of the Jew’s Other.
The chapter explains what could have led Paul to develop this discursive formation and discusses the implications.
It also considers various ideas about Jews’ others in nascent Christianity and compares them to the rabbinic formation of the goy.
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