The Crux of Election: Paul's Critique of the Jewish Confidence in the Election of Israel: 202 (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament 2.Reihe) - Softcover

Grindheim, Sigurd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3161486900 ISBN 13: 9783161486906

Publisher: JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 2005

Synopsis

This book contributes to the discussion of the relationship between Paul and contemporary Judaism by investigating Paul's understanding of Israel's election. In two passages Paul rejects election-based privileges as basis for confidence before God: 2 Cor 11:16-12:10 and Phil 3:1-11. Sigurd Grindheim argues that, for Paul, the elect identity can only be rightly conceived of as entailing conformity to Christ and his cross. Jewish election-based confidence is critiqued because it does not conform to this pattern, and it must therefore be rejected as incompatible with the mind-set that is modeled after Christ. As a control of these results, this book also contains an exegesis of Rom 9-11, where Paul approaches the question of Israel's election from a more positive angle. In light of the results reached, the study concludes with a critique of the new perspective on Paul.

About this title

About the Author:

Sigurd Grindheim, Born 1968; 2002 Ph.D.; since 2003 Assistant Professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 3161486900
• ISBN 13: 9783161486906
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282