{"id":66767,"date":"2025-03-24T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=66767"},"modified":"2025-03-19T21:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T02:05:10","slug":"brief-book-review-brothers-and-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/brief-book-review-brothers-and-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Book Review: Brothers and Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Brothers and Sisters: Paul in the Liturgy<\/em><br>by Florence Morgan Gillman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Who should read this?<\/strong>&nbsp;This book is explicitly addressed to Catholic lectors and readers of Paul\u2019s letters\u2014those who read Paul\u2019s letters in liturgies and those who desire to understand these letters on a deeper level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why should you read this?<\/strong>&nbsp;This book provides clearly written responses to common questions about Paul and his letters, such as those related to a chronology of his life or what his attitude was toward women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why is this book useful?<\/strong>&nbsp;Every chapter is written in the same voice and clearly directed toward the thinking layperson who reads Paul\u2019s letters. The final chapter, \u201cHearing and Proclaiming Paul in the Liturgy and from the Lectionary,\u201d is very practical\u2014dealing with such topics as: which writings of Paul appear in the Roman Catholic lectionary; what to do if assigned a \u201cPauline\u201d letter that one thinks Paul did not write; how to understand the lectionary as \u201ca work in progress\u201d; and how to proclaim the word while serving as lector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quibble:<\/strong>&nbsp;This book\u2019s title,&nbsp;<em>Brothers and Sisters<\/em>, might be taken as an icon of its approach to Paul. Just as Bible editors now add \u201cand sisters\u201d to Paul\u2019s address of his readers as \u201cbrothers\u201d to fit our current sensibilities, so this book\u2019s portrait of Paul is one especially offered not to offend. The author admits that Paul is patriarchal in his advocacy of head coverings for women in 1 Corinthians 11:2\u201316, but in regard to the silencing of women that follows three chapters later, the author\u2019s main response is that Paul probably did not write 1 Corinthians 14:34\u201335. Similarly, what to current sensibilities seems sexist in the Pastoral Letters is easily dismissed by labelling these letters as deutero-Pauline, i.e., written by someone after Paul. No reflection is offered on how to regard these texts that remain in the Church\u2019s canon. The author\u2019s motivation to make Paul accessible and relevant is commendable, but I wish readers would have been offered more opportunities to see potential points of difference between Paul and our culture\u2019s sensibilities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why is this book significant?<\/strong>&nbsp;This is a short, academically informed presentation of Paul that offers direct and succinct answers to common questions about Paul\u2019s life and writings. This book is especially significant for its emphasis on Paul\u2019s Jewish identity. The author helpfully states that Paul never left his Judaism or Pharisaism. This is a useful explanation for understanding why Paul continues to quote from Mosaic law when writing to his Gentile churches. The book also describes how the new perspective on Paul arose out of E. P. Sanders\u2019s work in the twentieth century. While not the only model for understanding Paul\u2019s contested relation with his past in Judaism, Morgan Gillman\u2019s approach is useful in offsetting ingrained anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism among some Christians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florence Morgan Gillman,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ltp.org\/products\/details\/LBPAUL\/brothers-and-sisters\"><em>Brothers and Sisters: Paul in the Liturgy<\/em><\/a>. Liturgy Training Publications, 2024. 112. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>REVIEWER: Mark Reasoner<\/strong><br>Mark Reasoner graduated from The University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in New Testament and Early Christian Literature. He is Professor of Biblical Theology at Marian University, in Indianapolis, Indiana.\u00a0 His first monographs include <em>The Strong and the Weak: Romans 14:1 &#8211; 15:13 in Context<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 1999); <em>Romans in Full Circle: A History of Interpretation<\/em> (Westminster John Knox, 2005); <em>Documents and Images for the Study of Paul<\/em> (with Neil Elliott, Fortress 2011); and <em>The Letters of Paul: An Introduction<\/em>, 2nd ed. (with Charles Puskas, Michael Glazier, 2014). His research interests include the New Testament letters of Romans and 1 Corinthians and the cultural worlds of the New Testament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARK REASONER &#8212; This book provides clearly written responses to common questions about Paul and his letters, such as those related to a chronology of his life or what his attitude was toward women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":66773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3297],"tags":[3663,3972,3971],"class_list":["post-66767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brief-book-review","tag-brief-book-review","tag-florence-morgan-gillman","tag-mark-reasoner"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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