Corpus-Paul

["Maggie Hoop" <maggie.l.hoop AT vanderbilt.edu>]

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> 
> The reason I am asking this question is that in the last few years I have
> met several people who plainly say that they do not like Paul. Some
> therefore stay out of Pauline studies. It is their modern opinion about him
> coulored by our modern context. Often these people are women who do not
> like the way Paul treats other people.
> 
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I think that the main argument that women and Jews have against Paul is the 
way that Paul has been used against them, not necessarily who Paul was or 
what he did/said.  When something is used as a tool of opression, one 
either seeks to rehabilitate it or dismiss it.  As a woman and a Jew, I 
tend to vacilate between the two options.  It is not a matter of how Paul 
treats other people, it is a matter of how people (using Paul) treat other 
people.

Maggie Hoop
(humble graduate student)
Vanderbilt University
maggie.l.hoop AT vanderbilt.edu