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33 - Theology and Religious Studies
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Paulus, sein Volk und die Rassenterminologie. Kritische Anfragen an den‚Race’-Diskurs in neuerer englischsprachiger Paulus-Forschung
In the debates about Christian identity recent approaches trying to overcome spiritual/flesh dichotomies have argued for the usefulness of
ethnic and racial paradigms in analyses of Pauline letters. Whilst sympathetic to the intentions this article challenges the hermeneutical presuppositions on which the use of the concept of race and ethno-racial
terminology is built and demonstrates the anachronism in the use of racial concepts for antiquity and in the Pauline letters. Rather than being a contribution to the overcoming of racism the use of race as a paradigm in Pauline scholarship re-inscribes this highly problematic concept, including its overtones of anti-Judaism.
