Paul as an Early Witness to the Jewish Notion of Liberation-through-Torah

Updated by: 
Shiran Shevah
Research notes: 
SHS/not checked/02/09/2018 YKC/reader checked/09/01/2022
Reference type: 
Journal Article
Author(s): 
Ruzer, Serge
year: 
2018
Full title: 

Paul as an Early Witness to the Jewish Notion of Liberation-through-Torah

Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
Journal for the Study of the New Testament
Volume: 
41
Issue / Series Volume: 
1
Abbreviated Series Name: 
JSNT
Pages: 
82-94
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
Abstract: 

This study focuses on Paul’s ‘liberation language’ in Galatians, re-examining Shlomo Pines’s suggestion that Paul responded to a tendency, attested in later rabbinic sources, to present the Torah as intrinsically linked to true liberty. The study first analyses the apostle’s supposed polemical response, with the characteristic motif of the gift of the Spirit – instead of the Torah – as the guarantor of the eschatological freedom; its probable Jewish matrix is also outlined. Further, it is argued that side-by-side with Paul’s Spirit-centered line of argument, a positive appraisal of the Torah-of-freedom concept can also be discerned in Galatians. The epistle thus becomes a witness for the early provenance of that broader Jewish tendency.

URL: 
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0142064X18788980
Label: 
08/10/2018
Record number: 
103 870