Dennis Lu✝️ero

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[Dennis Lu✝️ero @DennLL]

Just posted a copy of my master's thesis (completed in May) to https://t.co/OewuZREmlM, where I challenge the traditional conception of Paul's audience in Romans. Enjoy!

Jew and Greek: Paul's Intra-Israelite Debate in Romans https://t.co/5d40yx8A5x via @academia

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Procol Harum’s Denmark performance of “A Whiter Shade of Pale” is regarded as one of the greatest live renditions of the song ever recorded. The band performed with a 72-piece orchestra and a 50- to 70-member choir. It has over 122 million views on YouTube.

[Dennis Lu✝️ero @DennLL]

My first peer-reviewed article is out in Religions. I argue that Hellēn — treated as a synonym for Gentile across the commentary tradition — designates a distinct third population between Jew and Gentile. Open access. https://t.co/SLaopxCI9k @MDPIOpenAccess

[Dennis Lu✝️ero @DennLL]

@paulthomasloan Our hearts ache with yours. Praying for comfort and peace in your time of mourning.

[Dennis Lu✝️ero @DennLL]

Watch full video here: https://t.co/ZHz5vHv5bI

[Dennis Lu✝️ero @DennLL]

Started a series on my YT channel where I'll be distilling the findings from my master's thesis "Jew and Greek: Paul's Intra-Israelite Debate in Romans." Link to full video in the comments. First of many. Check it out, share with friends!

[Dennis Lu✝️ero @DennLL]

@Phlebas_ @DZRishmawy @AndrewRillera Rillera states in the introduction that he is a "Christian in the Anglican tradition."

[Dennis Lu✝️ero @DennLL]

The group marker "Greeks" in the book of Acts refers to non-Jewish Israelites, NOT to "Gentiles":

"The general outgroup name for Israelites used by non-Israelites was “Judeans.” To non-Israelites, all Israelites were Judeans. In ingroup Israel of the Diaspora, “Judeans” were those Israelites who followed the customs and behaviors of Judea rather closely, while “Greeks” were those Israelites who followed the “civilized” usages of Hellenistic culture. For those used to the terminology, of course, there would be little confusion."

Bruce J. Malina and John J. Pilch, Social-Science Commentary on the Book of Acts (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2008), 99.

[Christoph Heilig @ChristophHeilig]

Don't want to read all 1000pp of my German dissertation (@degruyter_TRS) on narratives in Paul's letters? In the first issue of the wonderful new journal @agntsjournal, you'll find an English translation by @WayneCoppins_NT of my conclusions!

https://t.co/jqOnA4xgqU

[Dennis Lu✝️ero @DennLL]

Romans 9-11 is a sustained argument that Jews are not the only Israelites allowed in the new kingdom reality of Jesus as Lord; non-Jewish Israelites who have been apostate can return to the fold and be accepted back into the family of God (pg. 82ff): https://t.co/5d40yx97V5

[Biblical Archaeology Review @BibArch]

Stables illuminate northern kingdom’s greatest strength https://t.co/AxnpF0OHBI

[Dennis Lu✝️ero @DennLL]

In #Acts15, the Jerusalem Council agrees that Gentiles do not need to undergo #circumcision. So why, in the very next verses (#Acts16:1-3), does Paul have Timothy circumcised, not b/c his mom is a Jew, but b/c his father is a "Greek"? Because "Greek" is not a synonym for Gentile, but represents a non-Jewish Israelite... (5.2.1, "The Group Marker “Greek” and Circumcision," pg. 101)
#PaulineStudies #NewTestament #AcademicBiblical

Jew and Greek: Paul's Intra-Israelite Debate in Romans https://t.co/6XviuDnLSp

[Dennis Lu✝️ero @DennLL]

@hwinkler4real That may be a little duckling, but that's a HUGE book! Congrats!

[Business Insider @BusinessInsider]

How books are handmade at the last printing press of its kind in the US.

(Source: Arion Press, 2021)

[Dennis Lu✝️ero @DennLL]

@jasonstaples @firstthingsmag Just read it. Looking forward to your response!

[Dennis Lu✝️ero @DennLL]

"All of this, of course, is critical to understanding Paul's statement about his being an "apostle to the Gentiles." Paul (and the author of the Acts of the Apostles) simply assumed that readers would understand."

Malina & Pilch, Social Science Commentary on the Letters of Paul

[Dennis Lu✝️ero @DennLL]

"When Paul, a Pharisaic Israelite, writes that he was sent to "the (other) peoples"... he feels no necessity to explain for his readers what going to "the (other) peoples" might concretely mean...

[Dennis Lu✝️ero @DennLL]

"W/ their concern for preserving ingroup boundaries along w/ prevailing ethnocentrism, people hearing of Paul's going to the ethne, that is, among other ppls of the Mediterranean, would understand that Paul went to Israelites resident among other peoples of the Mediterranean..."