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We are back for Part 2 of our interview with Matthew Thiessen! Dr. Thiessen recently wrote, A Jewish Paul: The Messiah’s Herald to the Gentiles (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2023). In Part 1 we discussed this book’s relation to Dr. Thiessen’s early work, Paul’s weirdness, and his interpretation of Paul’s phrase, the “works of the law.” This instalment compares Paul in Acts with Paul in his letters in relation to the law, the translation of “Judaism” in Galatians 1:13, and more:
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-bottom:8px">Every religion has its demonology. When Malcolm X made this observation to Alex Haley as they collaborated on what was to become his <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/106490/the-autobiography-of-ma… autobiography</a>, his immediate target was the antisemitic teaching promoted by Elijah Muhammed, from whose sect he had recently broken.
Oxford University Press' new annotated version of the notoriously cryptic Oral Torah compendium comes steep even for an academic title, but may become more affordable in the future