On the Sanctity of Mixtures and Branches: Two Halakic Sayings in Romans 11:16–24

Paul, Pagans and Eschatological Ethnicities: A Response to Denys McDonald

“…When God once again engrafts the Jews, it will be done κατὰ φύσιν, ‘according to their φύσις’. However we decode Paul’s image of the olive tree (see Johnson Hodge 2004, 2007; Gordon 2016), Jews belong to it and it to them κατὰ φύσιν (‘by nature’, Rom. 11.21, 24) because the tree is ‘their own’ (τῇ ἰδίᾳ ἐλαίᾳ, 11.24).…”