Ephesians is the only deutero-Pauline letter to make substantial use of the Old Testament (OT). The use of the OT in this letter is complicated by the fact that Paul's genuine letters were likely also sources for the pseudonymous author and so likely influenced his reading of Sc…
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Following a quick introduction in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 examines scholarship on Rom 13:1–10 to establish a springboard for investigating John Chrysostom's and John of Damascus' interpretation of that passage. This starting point is that Paul wrote Romans between 55–58 C.E., and s…
In this dissertation, I explore the role of community in the narrative articulation of the self. Recent studies of St. Paul's letters suggest that Paul's statements about justification refer first to Paul's community and only secondarily to the stance of the individual before Go…
Exegetes engaged in the study of Luke-Acts have frequently noted that the author of these two volumes demonstrates repeatedly his concern about the relationship of the Church to the chosen people of God, Israel. These same scholars have recognized that Luke, following the lead o…
One of the most challenging Pauline statements is Romans 10:4. [special characters omitted]. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. The exegesis of this one verse has been challenging to scholars, and the debate seems endless. The purpose of…
The title of this dissertation is “Paul's Use of Deuteronomy 30:11–14 in Rom. 10:5–8 as a Locus Primus on Paul's Understanding of the Law in Romans.” The thesis of this dissertation is that Rom. 10:5–8 represents a locus primus among Pauline texts to illumine the issue of the la…
This dissertation sets out to prove that when the church ignores Pauline orthopraxy in cross-cultural mission, especially in the area of finances, it places unnecessary obstacles in the path of the missio Dei. To do so, an investigation into Paul's socio-economic status is under…
The purpose of this dissertation is to consider the so-called "uneschatological" tendency of Paul's words in Acts. First, this dissertation will attempt to understand the thrust and contents of the future eschatology of Paul in Acts with the purpose of refuting the notion that P…
Rom 10:6-8 provides an excellent test case to examine three main issues which have been raised in connection with Paul's use of the OT: the text form of Paul's citations, Paul's use of Jewish hermeneutics, and the problem of divine and human authorship. Prior to this century thi…
This dissertation traces the history of exegesis of 2 Thessalonians from the fourth century to the twelfth century. Early medieval exegesis is the result of a cumulative process, a deliberate and self-consciously constructed tradition. The task of the early medieval exegete lay …
The usual options in the scholarly literature—that Paul derived his behavior instructions in whole or in part either from the Old Testament Law or from contemporaneous Hellenistic moralists, or both, or even from Iranian sources—do not satisfactorily explain his ethic and the co…
In 2 Corinthians 11:16–12:10 and Philippians 3:1–11, membership in Israel, the elect people of God, is under discussion as a possible ground for confidence, namely that one is qualified as a minister and that one is right with God. Paul's response is brutal: this confidence amou…
An intertextual analysis of the Apostle Paul's Torah theology in the light of other early Jewish Torah theologies. The thesis is that when Paul wrote negatively about Torah (Jewish Law) he was not addressing Torah per se, but rather a particular mode of envisioning Torah that is…
E. P. Sanders' Paul and Palestinian Judaism proposed “covenantal nomism” as the pattern of religion underlying intertestamental and tannaitic Judaism. Sanders explained that the Mosaic Law's requirements, the “nomism,” was always embedded within a gracious, “covenantal” framewor…
The debate about Abraham which appears in the Judeo-Hellenistic fragments, such as, Pseudo-Eupolemus, Aristobulus, Demetrius the Chronographer, Artapanus, and Cleodemus Malchus evince that two basically opposing tendencies of exegesis appeared in Judaism early in the Second Temp…
The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the relationship among Paul, Simon Magus, and Marcion. Simon was called “the root of all heretics” by Irenaeus. The Tübingen school led by F. C. Baur viewed Simon in the Pseudo-Clementines as Paul in disguise. Marcion was anothe…
This study investigates the impact of the Damascus road encounter on Paul's theology of the cross. Much has been done in the field of the New Testament either focusing on the subject of Paul's Damascus road encounter or his theology of the cross; however, few works have been sol…
A post-radical literary investigation of this type reveals aspects of Paul's thought in Rom 9–11 and its context that have not been recognized in the section's long history of exegesis. Most notably, “Israel”, as a collective term, has the meaning of either “whole Israel” or “al…
In several of his letters, Paul introduces portions of Deuteronomy 27, 28, 29, 30, and 32 into his argument. This study examines Paul's explicit quotations of these chapters of Deuteronomy as well as his “explicit, verbal references” of Deuteronomy: texts that are not attended b…