Jewish Law and Gentile Hearers: The Goals of the Apostle Paul

Name: Jewish Law and Gentile Hearers: The Goals of the Apostle Paul
Start: 2024-10-22T16:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-22T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 202 S Thayer St, Ste 2111, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Michigan 48104

Schedule

Tue Oct 22 2024 at 04:30 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

202 S Thayer St, Ste 2111, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Michigan 48104 | Ann Arbor, MI

Jewish Law and Gentile Hearers: The Goals of the Apostle Paul.
Speaker: Paula Fredriksen
Tuesday, October 22 @ 4:30 - 6 PM
2022 South Thayer Building
"Paul, the ""apostle to the gentiles,"" urges his ex-pagan auditors to observe some Jewish law, but he is not (perhaps especially given his audience) a halakhic thinker: he’s improvising.
Paul is attempting to come up with a program of mitigated Jewish law-observance for non-Jews. He defends this proposition not through legal reasoning, but via his apocalyptic commitments. He’s teaching a kind of Judaism 2.0 for gentiles. This presentation will explore, then, what Paul says and why about Jewish law in the face of his commitment to an imminent end of time."