The Future of Biblical Israel: How Should Christians Read Romans 9-11 Today?


The article offers, from a Christian perspective, an ‘interested’ reading of Romans 9-11 with a view to the problem of Christian supersessionism. Focusing on the identity and character of Israel, it offers a theologically engaged reading that resists a classic supersessionist logic. Drawing on recen...

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Nebentitel:The Futures of Biblical Studies
1. VerfasserIn: Ticciati, Susannah (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2017
In: Biblical interpretation
Jahr: 2017, Band: 25, Heft: 4/5, Seiten: 497-518
RelBib Classification:BH Judentum
CC Christentum und nichtchristliche Religionen; interreligiöse Beziehungen
HC Neues Testament
weitere Schlagwörter:B Romans 9-11 Israel supersessionism Jews church Barth

B Bibel. Römerbrief 9-11
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Zusammenfassung:The article offers, from a Christian perspective, an ‘interested’ reading of Romans 9-11 with a view to the problem of Christian supersessionism. Focusing on the identity and character of Israel, it offers a theologically engaged reading that resists a classic supersessionist logic. Drawing on recent historical scholarship on Jewish and Christian developments in the early centuries CE, the article argues for the underdetermined, contested and constructed character of postbiblical Israel. It then builds on a minority trajectory within recent Pauline scholarship that finds only one Israel in Romans 9-11, an Israel which embraces Christ-believing Gentiles but does not exclude non-Christ-believing Jews. Finally, it argues for a retrieval of Karl Barth’s insight (developed in the second edition of his Romans commentary) that hardened Israel is the church. Christians are thereby summoned not just to solidarity with others who have been hardened, but also to confession of their own hardening.

ISSN:1568-5152
Enthält:Enthalten in: Biblical interpretation
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685152-02545P04