by N. T. Wright
Stephen, 37–38, 42, 53, 67, 99, 140
Stoics, 9, 74–75, 197–98, 219, 279
St. Paul Outside the Walls, 392
Suetonius, 212
Tabernacles, 28, 48, 160, 166, 250, 403
Tacitus, 320
Tarsus, 10–11, 13–14, 23, 34, 66, 68–83, 85, 121
Temple (First Temple), 18, 20–22, 33, 37, 47–48, 51, 54, 72, 224, 291–92, 341, 343, 353–54, 402–4
tentmaking, 11, 15, 68–69
Tertius, 337
Thessalonica, 185–89, 212, 214, 226, 306, 342
Tiberius, Roman emperor, 222, 225
Timothy, 174–80, 182, 184, 187–89, 194, 212–15, 223, 230, 248, 289, 342, 394–96
Tiro, 282
Titus, 97–98, 100, 175, 259, 266, 300, 304–7, 312, 342, 350, 394, 396–97, 412
“To an Unknown God” altar inscription, 202–5
Torah: breaking with ancestral traditions and, 138–40; covenant membership and, 160–61, 277–78; disloyalty to, 30, 155, 292, 322, 366; Gentile Christians and, 322, 336, 404; as God’s story, 72; “inheritance” of promised land and, 151–52; loyalty to, 153–55, 159, 165, 408; Moses and, 63, 159–60, 166, 356; in narrative of Israel, 18, 330, 332–33; Paul’s lax attitude toward, 350, 356, 358, 386, 405; as portable Temple, 48–49; stoning of Stephen and, 37–38; strict obedience to, 14, 20, 22–23; study by Paul, 15, 29–30, 35, 65, 71, 118, 125; study by Yigal Amir, 37; study in Jewish families, 27, 425; supposed “gospel” of Torah-plus-Jesus, 162; worship of One God in Roman Empire and, 135; zeal for, 32–34, 36, 49, 53–54, 120, 136, 276, 279, 360
Troas, 176–78, 305, 306, 344, 354, 395, 409
Trophimus, 342, 354, 395
Tychicus, 282, 284, 294, 342, 395
Tyrannus, 245
Uriah, 173
Verres, 184
“wisdom” tradition, 287–89
women, 80–81, 424–25
zeal: behavior of Paul, 23, 33–36, 36, 44, 62, 64, 69, 73, 77–78, 134, 277–79, 328, 349, 354; for God, 32–34, 36; of Jesus-followers, 349, 351; of Phinehas, 411; religion and, 3–4; role models for, 29–34; for Torah, 32–34, 36, 49, 53–54, 120, 136, 276, 279, 360; victory over prophets of Baal, 63, 125
Zeus, 124
About the Author
N. T. WRIGHT is the former bishop of Durham in the Church of England and one of the world’s leading Bible scholars. He serves as the chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews. For twenty years he taught New Testament studies at Cambridge, McGill, and Oxford Universities, and he has been featured on ABC News, Dateline, The Colbert Report, and Fresh Air. Wright is the award-winning author of The Day the Revolution Began, Simply Jesus, Surprised by Hope, Simply Christian, and many other titles.
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Copyright
All Old Testament quotations, unless they are the author’s translations, are taken from the New Revised Standard Version, copyright © 1989, National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. All New Testament quotations are taken from The Kingdom New Testament: A Contemporary Translation, by N. T. Wright, copyright © 2011 by Nicholas Thomas Wright.
“The Conversion of St. Paul” is from Collected Poems, by John Betjeman © 1955, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1968, 1970, 1979, 1981, 1982, 2001. Reproduced by permission by John Murray Press, a division of Hodder and Stoughton Limited.
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