Paul and the Resurrection of Israel by Jason A

Listen to the full episode here:In this episode, Erik Rostad discusses Paul and the Resurrection of Israel: Jews, Former Gentiles, Israelitesby Dr. Jason A. Staples, book 53 for his 2023 reading list.
Show Notes
• Author: Dr. Jason A. Staples
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• Podcast Episode / Jason’s First Book: The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism
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• My Thoughts about this book
• The Great Books Reading List
• 2023 Reading List
• Reading Resources
• Books of Titans Website
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I’m a new fan of Jason’s books. I bought both and I think they are good. What Jason is discovering is not so much, in my opinion, a new paradigm but rather an awakening among mainstream scholars. I think he’s rediscovering what the apostles believed since the beginning. That gentiles are grafted into the covenants of Israel (Ephesians 2) essentially grafted into Israel while remaining of the nations (uncircumcised) and covenant members as equal members just like the Torah originally says, one law for the native and the foreigner. God commands in the Torah that the foreigner who joins to the Lord shall be treated as an equal as if he were an Israelite, like Caleb and his brother, yet keeps the distinction like a dual citizenship. Paul sees the gentiles coming to faith and fidelity to God as fulfilling the prophecy that all nations shall come to His holy mountain, Isaiah 2 and 56, to seek His Torah and remarkably at the same time sees “All Israel will be saved” like Jason shows in his book, through their inclusion.
I wish there was small part in the book where Jason explores “Enlargement theology”, specifically explained by Tim Hegg of TorahResource, a theologian, Hebrew and Greek scholar and proponent of One Law theology. What I get from this book is Jason is discovering and trying to describe what Tim Hegg has beautifully explained in many of his studies and commentaries which is explaining Romans 11 “grafted in” and how “all Israel” will be saved.
What I like about Jason’s book is that he gives his readers a challenge. Pg 343, he challenges those who wish to be contentious or improve on the paradigm proposed to look at his 3 points. And I think Tim Hegg has an excellent response to point 3, that no one has gone deep into because of the reason Jason mentions in his Preface, that the dominant paradigm is easy and no body wants to start from scratch. Hopefully Jason and Tim Hegg could meet one day and have a good exchange back and forth, theologian with theologian, and help further understand Paul and the Resurrection of Israel.

[@BooksofTitans]

Yeah, I really liked the challenge on page 343 as well. Thanks for pointing to Tim Hegg and for your comments here.