RT Article
T1 Obedient Gentiles and Jealous Jews: A Fresh Interpretation of Paul's Aim in Romans 11.11-14
JF Journal for the study of the New Testament
VO 41
IS 2
SP 161
OP 176
A1 Jeong, Mark
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1666222550
AB 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' (parazēlōsis) and its cognate 'zeal' (zēlos) 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.
K1 Josephus
K1 Paul
K1 Philo
K1 Romans
K1 Jealousy
K1 Law
DO 10.1177/0142064X18804434