" Whoever understands what Scholem presents in the eight chapter of Major trends in Jewish mysticism can penetrate more deeply into Paul's messianic logic than by reading the entire exegetical literature. (...) This messianic logic touchs on several dynamics at once: it recognizes the motor force of actes of transgression or apostasy; it 'tarries with the negative' in that the perception it affords is accessible only through limit conditions such as death, illness, or despair; and it seeks to maintain a barely perceptible register of slight difference so that two things that might appear to be the same are recognized as distinct".

Jacob Taubes, The political theology of Paul.

http://www.cismor.jp/en/publication/jismor/documents/r002000040002.pdf