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Approaches to Paul: A Student’s Guide to Recent Scholarship is unavailable, but you can change that!

What distinguishes the “new perspective on Paul”—and what lies beyond it? What are scholars saying about Paul and the Roman Empire or about the intersection between feminist and postcolonial interpretation of Paul? Magnus Zetterholm provides a clear and reliable guide to these and other lively issues in the contemporary study of Paul, surveying the history of the principal perspectives on Paul’s...

process with regard to Jesus, who in the beginning of the twentieth century was commonly viewed in contrast to Judaism, but who is now firmly localized within first-century Judaism,1 the hesitation to accept a Jewish Paul has been more substantial. Given the prominence of the doctrine of “righteousness by faith,” especially within the Reformation churches, this hardly comes as a surprise. Traditionally, Christian faith has been constructed over and against Jewish works-righteousness. As a consequence,
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