Corpus-Paul

[Jürg Buchegger <j.buchegger AT datacomm.ch>]

In his mail from Oct 15, Mark Nanos wrote (answering Loren Rosson):

<I hope it is not unbecoming to note that the basic argument of "the" "new"
<perspective was made long ago (at least in the 1800's) by "outsiders" to
<Pauline study, but their contribution was largely ignored "until" the
<contributions of Davies, Stendahl, Sanders, et al., although Moore got some
<notice, and later Schoeps, in different directions. Sanders notes that
<Jewish scholars have made the basic observations about the nature of first
<century Judaism being very different than Paul (ostensibly, at least in the
<traditional Christian construction) portrayed it to be. [tracing these
<earlier developments among various interpretive communities would make a
<good thesis topic, if someone is searching...]

<Perhaps a sampling of examples I have handy would be of interest from
merel=
y
<one of the available sources. In his 1892 Hibbert Lectures, the Jewish
<scholar C. G. Montefiore wrote many comments worthy of citation (note:
<Sander's does not quote from this source, but a later Montefiore work that
<stressed a different angle), including arguments from the primary sources
<that are not cited below.

You find all the important voices of wrestling with Paul from a jewish
perspective
in the last 200 years in the nice book of Stefan Meissner, Die Heimholung
des
Ketzers: Studien zur jüdischen Auseinandersetzung mit Paulus, WUNT 2/87
(Tübingen:
J.C.B. Mohr (P. Siebeck), 1996) - in his chap.2 he tells the "history of
jewish Ausei-
nandersetzung with Paul", that is Joseph Salvador, Samuel Hirsch, Heinrich
Graetz,
Elia Benamozegh, Isaac Mayer Wise, Kaufmann Kohler, Moritz Friedländer,
Claude
Goldsmith Montefiore, Gottlieb Klein, Joseph Gedalja Klausner, Martin Buber,
Leo
Baeck, Hans Joachim Schoeps, Samuel Sandmel, Schalom Ben-Chorin, David
Flusser,
Richard Rubenstein, Michael Wyschogrod, Hyam Maccoby, Lester Dean, Alan
Franklin Segal, Pinchas Lapide, Daniel Boyarin.

Anyway, my original question was only interested in the formal expression of
"new perspective
on Paul" and I thank everybody who gave me a hint to this one.

Jürg Buchegger
Pfr. Dr.theol., senior pastor EFC Buchs, Switzerland