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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