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Beyond Continuity and Discontinuity

The Apocalyptic Paul in Galatians

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Beyond Continuity and Discontinuity

The Apocalyptic Paul in Galatians

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Jared Neusch offers a fresh reading of Paul's theology, particularly concerning pistis, time, and his rereading of the Scriptures, arguing that the opposition between salvation history and apocalyptic, continuity and discontinuity imposes misleading frameworks on Paul's thought. Drawing on Relevance Theory for semantic analysis and engaging with key voices in Pauline scholarship, Neusch critiques prevailing temporal assumptions and proposes Relationalism as a useful temporal framework that more accurately accounts for Paul's apocalyptic epistemology.

Neusch thus focuses on Galatians 3, making a critical argument regarding Abraham, Christ, and pistis. With a defining of the much-contested term “apocalyptic,” a challenging of the controlling continuity vs. discontinuity paradigm, the introduction of Relationalism as a new way forward for considering time in Paul, and finally, a rereading of pistis (and thus Abraham), Neusch provides a fresh reading of Paul in Galatians, unconstrained by binary paradigms, that sufficiently accounts for the impact of the revelation of Christ in Paul.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chapter One: Paul and Apocalyptic
Chapter Two: Experience as Hermeneutic: A Rereading of Galatians 3:1-5
Chapter Three: Time in Paul: How a Particular Notion of Time Underpins the Current Debate on Apocalyptic
Chapter Four: Time in Galatians: An Exegetical Analysis
Chapter Five: Pistis in Apocalyptic
Chapter Six: Final Conclusions
Appendix A
Bibliography

Product details

Published 15 Oct 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Pages 240
ISBN 9780567729620
Imprint T&T Clark
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Series The Library of New Testament Studies
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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