EBOOK Remembering Paul: Ancient and Modern Contests over the Image of the Apostle
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Ancient and Modern Contests over the Image of the Apostle
Who was Paul of Tarsus? Radical visionary of a new age? Gender-liberating progressive? Great defender of orthodoxy? In Remembering Paul, Benjamin L. White offers a critique of early Christian claims about the "e;real"e; Paul in the second century C.E.-a period in which apostolic memory was highly contested-and sets these ancient contests alongside their modern counterpart: attempts to rescue the "e;historical"e; Paul from his "e;canonical"e; entrapments.
Who was Paul of Tarsus? Radical visionary of a new age? Gender-liberating progressive? Great defender of orthodoxy? In Remembering Paul, Benjamin L. White offers a critique of early Christian claims about the "e;real"e; Paul in the second century C.E.-a period in which apostolic memory was highly contested-and sets these ancient contests alongside their modern counterpart: attempts to rescue the "e;historical"e; Paul from his "e;canonical"e; entrapments.