Description: Wrestling with Paul shows that scholars in a post-Holocaust world have often sanitized Paul's ethnocentric exclusivism in order to make him ahistorically "good" for modern Jews and Judaism. It also shows that readers of Paul have for millenia made sense of Paul in light of contemporaneous attitudes toward Jews and Judaism.
Brief description:
Sarah Emanuel is Associate Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. She is the author of Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation: Roasting Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and Trauma Theory, Trauma Story: A Narration of Biblical Studies and the World of Trauma (Brill, 2021). She lives on the coast with her wife and their many nonhuman animals.