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Belying the assumption that there is nothing more to discover about the similarities between Jesus and the apostle Paul, Jerome Murphy-O 'Connor gives us this enticing study. Extracting his information from a variety of sources 'pagan, Jewish, and Christian 'Murphy-O 'Connor imaginatively interweaves geographical, cultural, and historical elements into configurations that reveal important parallel trajectories in the lives of Jesus and Paul. Murphy-O 'Connor begins by discussing the births, early years, and family settings of Jesus and Paul. He continues with an examination of their education, refugee status, social class, economic position, political circumstances, cultural influences, and conversion experiences. Finally, he explores details surrounding their deaths. In the end, Jesus and Paul: Parallel Lives gives us incisive comparisons that include but also go beyond the Scriptures to suggest novel ways of picturing Jesus-Pal. Readers will appreciate the labors of Murphy-O 'Connor to contextualize Jesus, the God-Man, alongside Paul, Man of God and Apostle to the Gentiles 'and will thereby have a greater appreciation for the missions of both.
Jerome Murphy-O 'Connor, OP, has been a Professor of New Testament at the Ecole Biblique of Jerusalem since 1967. He has lectured throughout the world and is the author of numerous books, including the popular Oxford Press archaeological guidebook, The Holy Land, as well as Pal the Letter-Writer: His World, His Options, His Skills and St. Paul's Corinth: Texts and Archeology, both published by Liturgical Press.
- Sales Rank: #1025204 in Books
- Published on: 2007-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.96" h x .29" w x 6.56" l, .39 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 136 pages
About the Author
Jerome Murphy-O'Connor is one of the world's foremost authorities on the writings of Saint Paul of Tarsus. He has been a professor of New Testament at the ?cole Biblique of Jerusalem since 1967. He is the author of numerous works, including St. Paul's Ephesus, St. Paul's Corinth, and Paul the Letter-Writer, all published by Liturgical Press.
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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
An interesting topic but disappointing in execution
By Tom Dykstra
This book is disappointing in a number of ways. Most of the text presents the details of each life separately rather than exploring the similarities and their implications. Most of the biographical details are imaginative extrapolations from the sources and are far more questionable than the general reader is likely to realize. And the few instances where the author directly examines the significance of the parallels sound more like miniature homilies from the pulpit than the considered judgment of a historian dispassionately judging the reliability of conflicting sources.
The author asserts that Jesus and Paul were similar in six ways. They were born about the same year; they both became refugees with their parents at a very early age; they both grew up in an alien environment far from their birthplace; each had a "temporary vocation" (Jesus as prophet and Paul as Pharisee); each had a "second conversion" as a result of which each rejected the Law; and each was executed by the Romans.
A chapter covers each parallel by recounting first the relevant facts of Jesus' life story, then those of Paul's. The elaborately detailed stories describe even the private thoughts and emotions of their protagonists, with few warnings about the difficulties, uncertainties, and ambiguities of the sources. For example, here are excerpts from the account of Jesus' visit to the temple at age 12, the only source of which is Luke (2:41-51):
"I strongly suspect, however, that Jesus argued to be permitted to go with them. He still did not know what God had in mind for him, and the following year he would be an adult, and perhaps culpable in the case of failure. Certainly, it is only in this perspective that we can understand why he overstayed in Jerusalem to hear and question the teachers in the temple. ... The determination of Jesus to prolong the contact with the teachers, even at the risk of disobedience to his parents, reveals that he was not getting the answer he desperately needed. ... If his family and human teachers had failed him, then it seemed to Jesus' twelve-year-old intelligence that he had a better chance of learning God's will for him by staying as close to the divine presence as possible. He undoubtedly knew that it was in a vision in the temple that Isaiah received his vocation. ... [Almost 20 years later, news about John the Baptist] provoked a surge of hope in Jesus' breast that now at last he might learn the destiny God had chosen for him." (pages 30-31)
What Murphy-O'Connor asserts is "certain" is often quite questionable. Assuming a 12-year-old's worry about approaching adulthood is hardly the "only" way to understand this text. The author asserts that similarities among the gospels leads to the "certain conclusion" that they rely on oral tradition, and that helps make them reliable historical witnesses. But the assertion about oral tradition is questionable, and in any case one would still have to question the historicity of the oral tradition itself. He asserts that because "no evangelist would invent Jesus' failure to carry his cross," the historicity of the periscope about Simon of Cyrene is "guaranteed." But it may simply be that he has not fully understood the intended theological point of the story. Indeed, to what degree can the historicity of any source, especially an ancient one and a secondary one at that, be considered "guaranteed"? Murphy O'Connor even asserts the likelihood of the virgin birth: "The historicity of the virgin birth cannot be established positively, but the extreme improbability that it is a theological creation makes its factuality a more appropriate starting point for the historian."
The reader may be tempted to believe that some of Murphy-O'Connor's "historical" conclusions are driven by his church's theology. The author firmly asserts that Paul had to have been married because all Jewish males would have done so as a matter of course, but in the face of the same lack of source data for Jesus he asserts Jesus, of course, never did marry. He asserts that Jesus' rejection of the Law amounted to "an implicit claim to sovereign authority" but for some reason Paul's did not. It often appears that the centrality of an article of faith is what makes it historical in Murphy-O'Connor's judgment. In peripheral matters he freely admits that the evangelists simply made up material as needed, which was OK because it was "in a good cause." This is his explanation for the stories of Paul's conversion and the words spoken by Jesus from the cross (pages 79, 96).
Given that so much of the text seems to be written by a believer, it comes as no surprise when the insights gleaned from the parallels seem to be for other believers. Thus, the ultimate conclusion of the book is that the parallels remind us that Christ was not just God but was also truly human:
"What is truly human is to struggle to discern one's vocation, to shape one's destiny in the face of adversity, to confront violent death. By putting Jesus in parallel with Paul, who obviously had to make such crucial and fundamental choices, we are forced to recognize that Jesus went through the same agonizing process."
Given that so much of the "agonizing process" detailed before this is imaginative reconstructions based upon sparse source evidence, and given that only certain Christian believers need reminding that Jesus was human, many readers are bound to find this book disappointing.
This is not to say that the topic itself is of little value. Perhaps the greatest disappointment of this book is that genuine parallels which could provide great insight into Biblical text and history are overlooked altogether. A book I helped edit 10 years ago, The New Testament: An Introduction: Paul and Mark, points out a long series of remarkable similarities between Mark 7:1-22 and Gal 2:11-14, which, taken together, lead to the conclusion that Jesus' experience in this case was most likely a literary reprisal of an experience of Paul's. When one realizes that Paul's letters were written 30 years before Mark and may well have been the only written sources Mark had available; and when one combines that with a willingness to admit along with Murphy-O'Connor that the evangelists made up what they needed "in a good cause," it becomes quite believable that parallels are literary rather than historical. And that would lead to very different insights from those expressed by Murphy-O'Connor.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A diferent look at Jesus and Paul
By Helen F. Glazer
A group from our parish is reading and discussing this book. For all of us it has meant thinking about the years Jesus spent before he began his public ministry. Jerome Murphy-O'Connor bases his suppositions about Jesus and Paul on history. As older Catholics we find that we are discovering the humanity of Jesus whereas most of us grew up thinking only of his divinity.
8 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Interesting Concept
By Patricia L. Marks
Murphy-O'Connor is careful to say that there are parallels between Jesus and Paul.Paralleling two significant people is not new. It has its precedents in ancient literature. Murphy-O'Connor dazzles with intriguing information. A must read for those interested in the New Testament world.
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