Jesus and God in Paul's Eschatology

This probe into Paul''s theology argues that in his eschatological thinking there is a conceptual overlap between Jesus and God. As in several pseudepigraphical texts, there is in Paul a certain identification of the roles of God and the messianic figure. Especially in Paul''s doctrines of the parousia and the final judgment this overlap features the Old Testament idea of the Day of the Lord Yahwe...