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Paul’s letter to the Galatians may be the boldest exposition of the Gospel and one of the best examples of how Paul’s theology first and foremost emerged within the framework of a living community. Dunn’s sensitivity to the letter’s larger flow of thought and his adept hand at guiding us through the sometimes murky waters of Paul’s thought combine to make this commentary refreshingly accessible...

issues which had dominated the immediately preceding context in Gal. 2 (circumcision—2:1–10; food laws—2:11–14), for these were precisely the test cases of Jewish distinctiveness over against Gentiles which were in danger of splitting the Jesus movement. In thus introducing the phrase immediately after his report of the two encounters Paul could expect his readers to recognize that ‘works of the law’ summed up the issue posed by these two test cases in particular; that the two encounters had made
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