John David Dawson
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520226302
- eISBN:
- 9780520925984
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520226302.003.0002
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter studies four important Pauline texts that were used by Daniel Boyarin to build his claim on Paul's allegorical reading. It argues that the poststructuralist assumptions of Boyarin lead ...
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This chapter studies four important Pauline texts that were used by Daniel Boyarin to build his claim on Paul's allegorical reading. It argues that the poststructuralist assumptions of Boyarin lead him to underrepresent the side of Paul's thought where he expresses the continuity of his new commitment to the risen Jesus with his permanent identity as a Jew. It looks at Boyarin's reliance on poststructuralist conceptions of meaning and it says that the text obscures Paul's efforts to preserve his Jewish identity. The chapter also looks at how Boyarin transforms the complicated Pauline formations of continuity and discontinuity into mutually canceling binary oppositions.Less
This chapter studies four important Pauline texts that were used by Daniel Boyarin to build his claim on Paul's allegorical reading. It argues that the poststructuralist assumptions of Boyarin lead him to underrepresent the side of Paul's thought where he expresses the continuity of his new commitment to the risen Jesus with his permanent identity as a Jew. It looks at Boyarin's reliance on poststructuralist conceptions of meaning and it says that the text obscures Paul's efforts to preserve his Jewish identity. The chapter also looks at how Boyarin transforms the complicated Pauline formations of continuity and discontinuity into mutually canceling binary oppositions.
