Corpus-Paul

["Sidney L. Davis, Jr." <sidneydavis AT comcast.net>]

Title: Author?

I have found Mark Nanos' "The Mystery of Romans" to be most insightful. I found it uniquely refreshing in that it critically examines the past and current scholarship (in as much as I have read and studied) and the traditional approaches to the study and examination of Romans by regarding it as authentic Jewish literature. It has enhanced my understanding and appreciation of Paul the Jew. No study of the book of Romans can be complete without such a perspective.

Sidney Davis
Hebrew College
Boston, Massachusetts

> This is a multiple-choice submission. Listers may respond to one or more of
> the questions.
>
> 1. I am looking for introductions to, or overviews of, the political reading
> of Paul.
>
> At this point I have access to: the two volumes edited by Richard Horsley,
> PAUL AND EMPIRE and PAUL AND POLITICS, Dieter Georgi THEOCRACY IN PAUL'S
> PRAXIS AND THEOLOGY, Neil Elliott LIBERATING PAUL, and the online seminar
> with Horsley that was facilitated through the CORPUS-PAUL list in 2002.
>
> Any further suggestions?
>
>
> 2. I am looking for material using the approach specifically to Romans.
>
> In addition to the material listed above, I have access to N. T. Wright's
> commentary in the NIBC, Bruno Blumenfeld's THE POLITICAL PAUL, Neil
> Elliott's treatment of Romans in Howard-Brook and Ringe, eds. THE NEW
> TESTAMENT: INTRODUCING A WAY OF DISCIPLESHIP and M. J. Brown's 2001 JBL
> article on Romans 1:1."
>
> Once again, any suggestions?
>
>
> 3. Finally, I have yet to see any reviews of Bruno Blumenfeld's THE

> POLITICAL PAUL: JUSTICE, DEMOCRACY AND KINGSHIP IN A HELLENISTIC FRAMEWORK.
> JSNTSup. 210. Sheffield, 2001. This is a bit of a different approach than
> the Georgi, Elliott, Horsley approach. Any comments or thoughts on the book?
>
> James C. Miller
> Daystar University
> Nairobi, Kenya