Die politische Theologie des Paulus

In February 1987, a few weeks before his death, Jacob Taubes gave 4 Pauline Lectures to a small audience, which he regarded as his spiritual legacy. In them, he entered the field of Pauline studies, a domain of Christian biblical scholarship, as a radical outsider. In his counter-reading of the Letter to the Romans, he places the conventional topics in entirely new contexts and thus works out the Jewish traits that have been erased from the Christian Paul. Taubes does not understand his examination of the Jewish Paul as a piece of scholarly historical reconstruction. Rather, his aim is to open up perspectives on forms of faith and life at this crossroads of Judaism and early Christianity, which have been buried by institutional consolidation and completely suppressed in the course of historical development. The lectures are a Jewish deconstruction of the Christian history of the impact of the Letter to the Romans, which stands under the spell of the formula 'faith instead of works'. 3rd improved edition 2003.