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Obedient Gentiles and Jealous Jews: A Fresh Interpretation of Paul’s Aim in Romans 11.11-14

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Jeong, M
Published in: Journal for the Study of the New Testament
December 2018

Scholars have long been perplexed by Paul’s statement in Rom. 11.11-14 that he magnifies his ministry to make Jews jealous and thus save some of them. After all, why would law-observant Jews be jealous of the salvation of supposedly law-free Gentiles? The problem is accentuated when we recognize that ‘jealousy’ (παραζήλωσις) and its cognate ‘zeal’ (ζῆλος) were connected with law-observance in Second Temple Judaism. To solve this problem, I consider how two contemporaries of Paul – Philo and Josephus – describe Gentiles’ attraction to Judaism through the Jews’ careful obedience to the Law. I argue in turn that Paul christologically reverses this schema such that the Gentiles’ obedience to the law by faith, the very goal of Paul’s apostleship (1.5; 15.18), is the means by which Paul hopes to provoke the Jews to jealousy and salvation.

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Published In

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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EISSN

1745-5294

ISSN

0142-064X

Publication Date

December 2018

Volume

41

Issue

2

Start / End Page

161 / 176

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Related Subject Headings

  • 2204 Religion and Religious Studies
  • 2103 Historical Studies
 

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Jeong, M. (2018). Obedient Gentiles and Jealous Jews: A Fresh Interpretation of Paul’s Aim in Romans 11.11-14. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 41(2), 161–176. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142064x18804434
Jeong, Mark. “Obedient Gentiles and Jealous Jews: A Fresh Interpretation of Paul’s Aim in Romans 11.11-14.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 41, no. 2 (December 2018): 161–76. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142064x18804434.
Jeong M. Obedient Gentiles and Jealous Jews: A Fresh Interpretation of Paul’s Aim in Romans 11.11-14. Journal for the Study of the New Testament. 2018 Dec;41(2):161–76.
Jeong, Mark. “Obedient Gentiles and Jealous Jews: A Fresh Interpretation of Paul’s Aim in Romans 11.11-14.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament, vol. 41, no. 2, SAGE Publications, Dec. 2018, pp. 161–76. Crossref, doi:10.1177/0142064x18804434.
Jeong M. Obedient Gentiles and Jealous Jews: A Fresh Interpretation of Paul’s Aim in Romans 11.11-14. Journal for the Study of the New Testament. SAGE Publications; 2018 Dec;41(2):161–176.
Journal cover image

Published In

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

DOI

EISSN

1745-5294

ISSN

0142-064X

Publication Date

December 2018

Volume

41

Issue

2

Start / End Page

161 / 176

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Related Subject Headings

  • 2204 Religion and Religious Studies
  • 2103 Historical Studies