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This comprehensive introduction to Paul by a leading European scholar, proceeding on the basis of the rootedness of the apostle’s letters in particular concrete circumstances, carefully lays out what can be known of those circumstances on the basis of the available evidence. It then interprets the letters in light of their life setting en route to a comprehensive and coherent description of...

Luke has intertwined two originally separate issues:32 (1) the settlement agreed upon at the apostolic council, according to which Gentile Christians need not be circumcised, and (2) the apostolic decree formulated in the context of the Antioch incident, intended to regulate the common life of Jewish and Gentile Christians in the territory of the Antiochene/Pauline mission. We can still recognize traces of this fusion of the two traditions in Acts 15:1–29. It accords with Lukan redaction that the
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