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  • From: "Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT attbi.com>
  • To: Corpus-paul <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Jewish origins of apostle
  • Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 08:15:26 -0600


Frich107 AT aol.com wrote:

[snip]

> I have also been considering whether there is any way of suggesting that a
> missionary (lit. one sent) could be understood to be Jewish in a Diaspora
> setting. Again my research is giving me little joy on this idea. The only
> other idea I have had, and it's really quite a stab in the dark, is that
> apostleship is a development of the prophetic ministry found in large
> sections of the Hebrew Bible. Again I am aware of the problems of this,
> especially considering how Paul himself describes apostleship in his
> letters.
> My interest is to particularly understand Paul's apostleship, and his
> understanding of the office, over against apostleship in general in the NT.
>

Given the echoes of the call of Isaiah and Jeremiah in Paul's "biographical
notices" in
Gal. 1:15-16, your idea that Paul's perception of apostleship being grounded
in OT
ideas of the prophetic office seems like **more** than a stab in the dark,
doesn't it?

Yours,

Jeffrey Gibson

>
> Regards,
> Fred Rich.
>
> Ph.D. student, University of Sheffield.
>
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