The Apostle Paul in the Jewish Imagination: A Study in Ideology

犹太人想象中的使徒保罗：意识形态研究

基本信息

批准号：
AH/D501482/1
负责人：
Daniel Langton
金额：
$ 2.95万
依托单位：
University of Manchester
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2007
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2007 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FD501482%2F1
关键词：
Apostle Paul Jewish Imagination Study

项目摘要

This project will fill a prominent gap in the scholarly literature through the publication of a major study on Jewish views of the first-century New Testament author, Paul. Although much has been written about Jewish views of Jesus, little has been published concerning the so-called Apostle to the Gentiles. This is remarkable since Pauline thought and Christian interpretations of it have significantly shaped the Church (especially the Protestant Church) with which Judaism has struggled down through the centuries. Traditionally, Paul's teachings have even been regarded as responsible for the 'Parting of the Ways' between Judaism and Christianity. Because an understanding of Paul is vital to understanding Christianity, a study of how the Jewish community and scholars have made sense of Paul will provide crucial insights into Jewish approaches to Christianity and to the development of Jewish-Christian relations in general.In attempting to understand how the Jewish community has regarded Paul historically, it is important to make a distinction between popular and scholarly views:1. One the one hand, this project will explore media and broadcast archives, popular histories, sermons, private correspondence, and artistic contributions including plays, novels and fine-art. It will also involve interviews with religious leaders and ordinary members of the Jewish community. The so-called traditional Jewish view of Paul', which sees him as a traitor and an enemy of the Jewish people, as one who renounced the Jewish Law or Torah and thereby condemned its loyal followers to centuries of persecution by his disciples, is well known. One hypothesis to be tested is whether the popularity of the negative view of Paul might be best explained in terms of the wider cultural landscape and, in particular, a complex array of ideas and attitudes that possess profoundly negative historical, sociological, and psychological connotations for many Jews. It is the conscious or unconscious projection of these attitudes onto Paul that might account for the power of the 'traditional Jewish view'. Conceptual categories to be analysed include (i) Jewish apostates, (ii) Jewish self-haters, (iii) Jews who disregard Torah, and (iv) Messianic Jews.2. On the other hand, this book will document the wide variety of views on the subject offered by individual Jewish writers, who have by no means always reflected popular opinion. These range from an assessment that the apostle Paul has been responsible for more Jewish deaths than any other thinker, to seeing him as a figure of hope and reconciliation for Jewish-Christian interfaith relations, to holding him up as an icon of post-modern Jewish identity politics. The history of the Jewish scholarly study of Paul is more recent than one might imagine. Until the nineteenth-century, there was little Jewish interest in Paul, in stark contrast to Jewish interest in Jesus. One hypothesis to be tested is whether the emergence of a Jewish reclamation of Jesus as a 'good Jew' at this time was responsible for the new Jewish scholarly interest in Paul as his replacement as chief representative of a hostile Christianity. In so doing, it sets out to relate the scholarship and to the religious ideology.It is the multifaceted relationship between the scholarship and public opinion that, in part, makes this study unique. In addition, it will relate for the first time historical developments in Jewish and Christian Pauline scholarship. And in the deconstruction of artistic representations of the apostle, this study will broaden the focus of how such theological subjects are approached.

该项目将通过出版有关第一世纪新约作者保罗的犹太人观点的主要研究来填补学术文献的显着空白。尽管关于犹太耶稣的观点已经写了很多，但几乎没有关于所谓的使徒向外邦人发表的文章。这是非常了不起的，因为波琳的思想和基督教的解释已经显着塑造了教会（尤其是新教教会），犹太教在过去的几个世纪中一直在努力奋斗。传统上，保罗的教义甚至被认为是犹太教与基督教之间的“方式”的原因。因为对保罗的理解对于理解基督教至关重要，所以对犹太人社区和学者如何理解保罗的研究将提供对犹太人的基督教方法以及犹太人 - 基督教关系的发展的重要见解。在一般而言，试图了解保罗历史上如何看待保罗，这对于在流行和学术上的看法很重要，这一点很重要。一方面，该项目将探索媒体和广播档案，流行历史，讲道，私人信件以及包括戏剧，小说和精美艺术的艺术贡献。它还将涉及对宗教领袖和犹太社区普通成员的采访。所谓的传统犹太人对保罗的看法”，将他视为叛徒和犹太人的敌人，他是放弃犹太法律或摩西五经，从而谴责其忠实的追随者在他的门徒身上遭受迫害的世纪。要检验的一个假设是，保罗负面观点的普及是否可以最好地用更广泛的文化景观来解释，尤其是一系列复杂的思想和态度，这些思想和态度对许多犹太人来说具有深远的负面历史，社会学和心理含义。这些态度对保罗的有意识或无意识的投射可能解释了“传统犹太人观点”的力量。要分析的概念类别包括（i）犹太背道者，（ii）犹太自我恋爱，（iii）无视摩西五经的犹太人和（iv）弥赛亚犹太人。2。另一方面，这本书将记录各种犹太作家提供的有关主题的各种观点，他们绝不会反映流行的观点。这些范围从对使徒保罗负责比其他任何思想家更多的犹太人死亡的评估，到将他视为对犹太基督教跨信仰关系的希望与和解的人物，到将他作为后现代犹太身份政治的偶像。犹太人对保罗的学术研究的历史比人们想象的更近。直到19世纪，保罗几乎没有犹太人的兴趣，与犹太人对耶稣的兴趣形成鲜明对比。要检验的一个假设是，目前将犹太耶稣作为“好犹太人”的犹太人审查的出现是否负责保罗的新犹太学术兴趣，作为他作为敌对基督教的首席代表的替代者。这样一来，它就开始与奖学金和宗教意识形态联系起来。这是奖学金与舆论之间的多方面关系，这些关系在某种程度上使这项研究与众不同。此外，它将首次与犹太和克里斯蒂安·波琳学术奖学金的历史发展有关。在对使徒的艺术表现的解构中，这项研究将扩大如何接近这种神学主体的重点。