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The apostle Paul was a vital force in the development of Christianity. Paul’s historical and religious context affects the theological interpretation of Paul’s writings—no small issue in the whole of Christian theology. Recent years have seen much controversy about the apostle Paul, his religious and social context, and its effects on his theology. In the helpful Counterpoints format, four...

on. So Sanders was able, in this environment (in tandem with his brilliant articulation of the case), to finally break through with key Jewish questions into widespread acknowledgment by New Testament interpreters. How we read Paul in relation to Jews matters, and most interpreters began to face up to this after 1977. They began to consider—to put things at their most simple and painful, borrowing a dictum from Irving Greenberg—whether certain readings of Paul, especially in relation to Judaism,
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