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Since the mid-twentieth century, apocalyptic thought has been championed as a central category for understanding the New Testament writings and the letters of Paul above all. But “apocalyptic” has meant different things to different scholars. Even the assertion of an “apocalyptic Paul” has been contested: does it mean the invasive power of God that breaks with the present age (Ernst Käsemann), or...

God … was pleased to reveal his Son to me [ἀποκαλύψαι τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ἐν ἐμοί; or “in me” (so NET, NIV, NJB)] so that I might proclaim him among the Gentiles (Gal. 1:15–16a). Rowland argues that Paul was an apocalyptic figure because he received a revelation, an apokalypsis, and not because of a particular theological perspective or agenda that could be called “apocalyptic.”2 I want to develop, but also nuance, Rowland’s view, the nuance being the rejection of the possible implications in
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