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The Climax of the Covenant: Christ and the Law in Pauline Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

With an eye to recent proposals on Paul’s view of the Law and his relation to his first-century context, N. T. Wright looks in detail at passages central to the current debate. Among them are some of the most controversial sections of Paul. From his meticulous exegesis Wright argues that Paul saw the death and resurrection of Jesus as the climactic moment in the covenant history of Israel and...

faithfulness to his covenant is uppermost. We cannot pursue these parallels here, but the themes of God’s forbearance, his delay of judgment to allow space for repentance, his hardening meanwhile of those who refuse his grace, and the idea of an historical survey in which his strange purposes are seen and understood, are all clearly reminiscent of Jewish apocalyptic writings such as 4 Ezra or 2 Baruch, and share with such works common roots in the literature of the exile.14 The main subject-matter
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