The antithesis of the ages: Paul's reconfiguration of Torah

1. Introduction

1.1. The eternal Torah and Paul

1.2. The eschatological Torah and its critics

1.2.1. Paul's eschatological mysticism

1.2.2. Christ as New Torah (Davies)

1.2.3. Paul's misunderstanding of Torah (Schoeps)

1.2.4. The Zion Torah (Stuhlmacher)

1.2.5. The critics (Raisanen and Banks) 00 1.2.6. Reprise: the antithesis of the ages

1.3. An intertextual approach to Paul

and

Torah

1.4. Structure

2. A narrative of wisdom and Torah

2.1. Introduction and assumptions

2.2. The biblical texts

2.3. Wisdom and Torah in Sirach

2.4. Wisdom and Torah in Baruch 3:9-4:4

2.5. Wisdom in the similitude of Enoch

2.6. Wisdom and logos in Philo

2.7. Conclusion

3. Torah's eternal and eschatological heavenly and hidden

3.1. The eternal Torah

3.2. The heavenly tablets

3.3. The temple scroll as rival Torah

3.3.1. "11QTorah" and the critics

3.3.2. A rival Torah?

3.4. The visionary wisdom of 1 Enoch as rival revelation

3.4.1. Revelatory genre

3.4.2. Enochic wisdom

3.4.3. Salvation

3.4.4. Conclusion

3.5. The secret books of 4 Ezra

3.6. Conclusion: Torah in early Jewish literature

4. Torah and the stumbling stone in Romans 9-10. 4.1. The Messianic stone in the New Testament

4.2. Paul's stone in context

4.3. The conflation of stone texts

4.3.1. God's agency

4.3.2. Zion

4.3.3. Rock of offense

4.3.4. Belief

4.3.5. Shame

4.4. The identity of Paul's stone

4.5. Not in heaven

4.6. Conclusion

5. Abraham an Torah in Galatians 3-4

5.1. Abraham in Galatians

5.2. Abraham in Early Jewish Literature

5.3. Paul and the Abraham narratives

5.3.1. Attention to textual minutiae

5.3.2. The allegory

5.4. Why then the Law

5.5. Conclusion

6. The tablets and the veil in 2 Corinthians 3

6.1. Letters, Apostolic authority and glory

6.1.1. Letters

6.1.2. Apostolic authority

6.1.3. Glory

6.2. The Sinai Theophany and Moses' veiling

6.2.1. Wider focus

6.2.2. Exodus 34 in the Septuagint

6.2.3. Torah and the veil

6.3. The influence of Jeremiah and Ezekiel

6.3.1. Jeremiah's New Covenant

6.3.2. Ezekiel's tablets

6.4. The Letter/Spirit antithesis and Torah

6.5. Conclusion

7. Conclusion.