John D. Caputo is Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities at Syracuse University. He is author or editor of several publications, including The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event (IUP, 2006) and Transcendence and Beyond: A Postmodern Inquiry (IUP, 2007).

Linda Martín Alcoff is Laura J. and Douglas Meredith Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. She is author of Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self and editor (with Eva Feder Kittay) of The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Postcards from Paul: Subtraction versus Grafting / John D. Caputo

Part 1. Paul among the Philosophers

1. St. Paul, Founder of the Universal Subject / Alain Badiou

2. From Job to Christ: A Paulinian Reading of Chesterton / Slavoj Zizek

Part 2. Paul between Jews and Christians

3. Historical Integrity, Interpretive Freedom: The Philosopher's Paul and the Problem of Anachronism / Paula Fredriksen

4. Paul between Judaism and Hellenism / E. P. Sanders

5. The Promise of Teleology, the Constraints of Epistemology, and Universal Vision in Paul / Dale B. Martin

6. Paul among the Antiphilosophers; or, Saul among the Sophists / Daniel Boyarin

7. Paul's Notion of Dunamis: Between the Possible and the Impossible / Richard Kearney

8. Concluding Roundtable: St. Paul among the Historians and the Systematizers

List of Contributors

Index