Description: Leading and rising scholars introduce a burgeoning new approach to the study of Paul, which situates the Jewish apostle to gentiles within the wider world of ancient Mediterranean religion.
Brief description:
Alexander Chantziantoniou (PhD, University of Cambridge, 2024) is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Crandall Univeristy.
Review Quotes:
These lively studies lift the ideological veil and show Paul with practices and modes of religiosity, neither Judean nor "pagan," shared across the Mediterranean world and West Asia generally. Readers will be richly rewarded with a more complex, truly historical Paul. --Stan Stowers, Brown University
A major advance in our understanding of Paul within his ancient religious and cultural context, these cutting-edge essays provide in-depth yet accessible entry points into how Paul and his gospel participated in ancient Mediterranean discourses of spirit possession, deification, kingship, gender, practices of divination, and much more. --Joshua W. Jipp, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School