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How New Is the New Testament?: First-Century Judaism and the Emergence of Christianity is unavailable, but you can change that!

What is so new about the New Testament? In this volume, Donald Hagner tackles the issue of how distinct early Christianity was from the first-century Judaism from which it emerged. Hagner counters the current and growing trend in New Testament scholarship of playing down any idea of newness in the New Testament and of viewing the New Testament and Christianity as representing a form of sectarian...

It was primarily the work of E. P. Sanders in his 1977 book Paul and Palestinian Judaism that moved scholars to this new assessment of first-century Judaism.2 Sanders portrays Judaism as a “covenantal nomism,” a law-based religion within an assumed context of covenant grace, rather than a legalism where salvation is earned by works. This basic understanding conflicts with the common view of Judaism assumed by the so-called Lutheran view of Paul. Sanders’s insight was
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