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  • From: Ian Scott <iscott2 AT uwo.ca>
  • To: 'Corpus-Paul' <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Corpus-Paul] Paul's Torah-observance
  • Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:04:31 -0500

Hello all,

 

I thought this might be a good opportunity to register my (friendly) doubt about Mark’s thesis that Paul was Torah-observant. This really goes beyond the bounds of your question, Jeff, but it might be a useful discussion here. Having read “Irony” some time ago the arguments there are not fresh in my mind. It seems to me, though, that Paul’s description of the Antioch incident still requires that Paul was at least violating food regulations on a regular basis when he was in mixed communities. The issue here is Peter’s habit of “eating with Gentiles,” and Paul describes Peter’s habit as “living like a Gentile and not like a Jew” (ethnikws kai ouchi Ioudaikws zhs). I don’t see any way around the idea that Peter and Barnabas (and Jewish believers in general in Antioch) were not keeping food laws. Given that Paul is opposing their sudden retreat from such mixed meals, it seems pretty clear that Paul himself was also in the habit of violating this aspect of Torah – one which in biblical law carries the penalty of exclusion from the community!

 

Cheers,

 

Ian

 

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Ian W. Scott

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

King's University College

London, Ontario, CANADA

iscott2 AT uwo.ca

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From: corpus-paul-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:corpus-paul-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Krantz @ optonline.net
Sent: March 27, 2006 8:30 PM
To: Corpus-Paul
Subject: [Corpus-Paul] Galatians 3:10

 

Quick question for Mark or someone familiar with his work about Galatians 3:10.  I'm doing a presentation on Paul for a local clericus (interfaith) tomorrow, and I'll be talking about The Irony of Galatians.  In light of Mark's suggestion that Paul is himself Torah observant, I wonder how I might deal with the "curse" of 3:10ff.  All that is present in the book is the inclusion of the passage among those that are examples of "ironic" speech. 

 

Anything else I might speak to if it comes up?

 

Thanks,

 

Jeff Krantz

 

 

 




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