My current work is the thought of Jacob Taubes (1923-1987), who is chiefly remembered today for his posthumous book The Political Theology of Paul, a political interpretation of the antinomian theology of Paul the Apostle. In this work, Taubes argues that Pauline antinomianism should be seen as an immanently Jewish phenomenon, and that Paul concerned him “as a Jew” and “as a philosopher”. My current research attempts to explore Taubes’s “Jewish” concern with Paul. I came to work on Taubes through my interest in German-Jewish thought in the early- and mid-twentieth-century, broader issues of the role of law in Judaism and the meaning of Jewish history, especially with reference to Zionism.

Thesis title: "Jacob Taubes: Judaism and Politics beyond the Philosophy of History" (MA Thesis, working title).