A Radical Jew
 collapse sectionAcknowledgments
 •Notes

 collapse sectionIntroduction
 •Notes
 collapse section1. Circumcision, Allegory, and Universal “Man”
 •The Language of “Man”
 •Hermeneutics as Politics
 •Women as Difference
 •Philo, Femaleness, and Allegory
 collapse sectionJews
 • “There is neither Jew nor Greek”
 •Circumcision, Castration, Crucifixion; or, The Body and Difference
 •Paul and Middle-Platonism
 •Jesus According to the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Christology
 • “Now Hagar is Mt. Sinai in Arabia”: The Allegorical Key to Paul
 •Writing on the Phallus: Midrash and Circumcision
 •Notes
 collapse section2. What Was Wrong with Judaism?
 collapse sectionPaul and “the Jewish Problem”
 •The “Old Paul”
 collapse sectionFive Current Views
 •The Gaston-Gager Hypothesis
 •E. P. Sanders: The Christological Interpretation of Paul
 •A Neo-Lutheran Reading Which Is Not Anti-Judaic: Stephen Westerholm
 •The “Sociological” Interpretation of Francis Watson
 •James Dunn: Paul as Culture-Critic
 •Paul as a Jewish Cultural Critic
 •Notes
 collapse section3. The Spirit and the Flesh
 •Greco-Roman Judaism and the Problem of Universalism
 collapse sectionThis Dualism Which Is Not One
 •What Is “Flesh”?
 collapse section “According to the Flesh” as the Literal: 1 Corinthians 10
 •Answering Davies's Objections
 collapse section “For we are the circumcision”
 •Bultmann Against Bultmann
 •Paul's “Mainline Platonism”
 •Notes
 collapse section4. Moses' Veil; or, The Jewish Letter, the Christian Spirit
 collapse sectionReading the Body in Romans 2
 •Hermeneutics or Ethics? Westerholm's Reading
 collapse sectionHermeneutics as Ethics: 2 Corinthians 3
 •Of Veils and Fading Glory
 •Notes
 collapse section5. Circumcision and Revelation; or, The Politics of the Spirit
 collapse sectionUniversal Man Confronts Difference: The Crisis in Galatia
 • “An apostle not from men”
 • “Or am I seeking to please men?”
 • “I did not confer with flesh and blood”
 collapse sectionConference in Jerusalem: Confrontation in Antioch (2:1–2:14)
 • “It is not by works of the Law that all flesh will be justified”
 •The Meaning of Justification
 •Paul's Midrash
 collapse sectionCircumcision and the Spirit: The Meaning of Pauline Conversion
 • “For through the Law I died to the Law”
 • “Having begun in the spirit, are you now finishing up in the flesh?”
 • “From My Flesh I Will See God”
 •Freedom or Anarchy?
 •Notes
 collapse section6. Was Paul an “Anti-Semite”?
 collapse sectionReading Paul as a Jew
 • “Those who are men of works of Law are under a curse”
 • “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law”
 • “The promise of the Spirit through faith”
 • “Brothers, I draw an example from common human life”
 • “Why then the law?”
 • “Is the law then against the promises of God?”
 • “And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’”
 •Paul's Allegorization of the Torah
 •Notes
 collapse section7. Brides of Christ
 collapse sectionRomans 5–8 and the Family of Grace
 •Sexuality and Sin in First-Century Judaism
 •The Law as Stimulus to Sin
 •The “Law of Sin in our Members” is Sex
 •Sin and the Law
 •Children as Fruit for Death
 •The Fruits of this Interpretation: Romans 6 and 8
 •Brides of Christ: 1 Corinthians 6
 •Works of the Flesh in Galatians 5–6
 •Paul the Proto-Encratite
 •Notes
 collapse section8. “There Is No Male and Female”
 •The Universal Spirit and the Body of Differences
 •Paul's “Backsliding” Feminism
 • “There is no Male and Female”
 •Philo's Spiritual Androgyne
 collapse sectionPaul's Ethic of the Body
 • “The man is the head of the woman”
 •Thekla and Perpetua; or, How Women Can Become Men
 •Notes
 collapse section9. Paul, the “jewish Problem,” and the “Woman Question”
 •Romans 11: Particularist Universalism
 •Israel in the Flesh: The Embodied Subject of the Jew
 collapse sectionThe Continuing Allegorization of the “Jew”
 •The “Secret Jew” and the “True Jew”
 collapse sectionThe “Jew” as Symbol of Inferior Religion: Rudolf Bultmann, Ernst Käsemann, and Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly
 •The “Secret Jew”
 •Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly: Judaism as the “Paradigm of Sacred Violence”
 collapse sectionThe “True Jew”: Romans 2:28–29 and Post-Structuralist “jews”
 • “jews”: Lyotard's diacritique of Jewishness
 •Jean-Luc Nancy and the Jews
 •The De(con)struction of Women
 •The Secret of the Jews
 •Notes
 collapse section10. Answering the Mail
 •Carnality and Difference
 •Power, Identity, Violence
 •Jews and Other Differences; or, Essentialism as Resistance
 •Diasporizing Identity
 •Racism and the Bible
 •Deterritorializing Jewishness
 •Toward a Diasporized (Multicultural) Israel
 •Notes

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