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Article: Paul: A Jew on the Margins
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- Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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Paul: A Jew on the Margins. By Calvin J. Roetzel. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2003, xii + 116 pp., $14.95 paper.
In Paul, A Jew on the Margins Calvin Roetzel brings together four previously published essays, along with two new contributions, in an effort to highlight the significance of Paul's status as one who lived on the cultural, religious, and political margins of first-century society. In Roetzel's view, this marginality was both theologically formative and intellectually generative in that it provided the impetus and perspective of much of Paul's theologizing throughout his letters. Far from a barren, unfruitful wasteland, Paul's marginality proved to be the creative matrix ...