Paul and Matthew Among Jews and Gentiles: Essays in Honor of Terence L. Donaldson

belonging

• Matthew's proselytism invited non-Jews into his form of Judaism; later church proselytism aimed at the very opposite: turning Jews into Christian non-Jews.

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• Paul takes a salvation-inclusive view regarding his own people who decline the 'in-Christ' group, yet says little positive about Gentiles outside it.

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faith-and-doubt

• Tamar, Rahab, and Ruth carry forward covenant promises by their righteous faithfulness, culminating in Mary, in whom promises to Abraham and David are fulfilled.

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• Tamar is faithful when Judah is not; by her faithful action the word of God to Judah is brought to fruition in the history of Israel.

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transformation

• Paul's converts are liberated from the present evil age; the alternative is not a new age but Christ himself — new creation.

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• By 'in Christ' Paul points to his perplexing and generative insight that Christ is a sphere of eschatological existence realized through the crucified and risen one.

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