Israel and the Nations

František Ábel is professor of New Testament at the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.

• Part 1: Paul the Apostle in the Context of Jewish Eschatological Apocalyptical NotionsChapter One The Making and Unmaking of Jews in Second Century BCE Literature and the Implication for Interpreting Paul Genevive DibleyChapter Two Paul and the Joining of the Ways: Ordering the Eschaton, Preparing for JudgmentAnders RunessonChapter Three From Aristeas to the Apocalypse of Abraham: A Survey of Some Hellenistic Jewish Texts Relating to the Issue of Israel and its Relationship to the Other NationsEric NoffkeChapter Four What Eschatological Pilgrimage of the Gentiles? Matthew V. NovensonChapter Five Eschatological Universalism, the Nations, and the Jewish Apocalyptic PaulLoren T. StuckenbruckChapter Six Did the LXX of the Twelve Prophets Contribute to the Eschatological Opening to the Nations? Patrick PouchelleChapter Seven Paul Between Judaism and Hellenism Imre PeresPart 2: The Specifics of Paul’s Message Concerning End-Time Redemption of Israel and Its RoleTowards the Na

The great merit of this volume is the range and diversity of the Jewish material it brings into conversation with Paul. This kind of engagement between New Testament and Second Temple Studies is long overdue.