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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...

reclamation of Paul began.19 There is currently a trend underway among a growing number of scholars to place Paul comfortably within Judaism.20 It is not only Jewish scholars who have begun to read Paul in this way. Indeed, encouraged to an extent by Jewish-Christian dialogue, there are some for whom the goal seems to be the Jewish reclamation of the NT and early Christianity itself. This approach puts all stress on continuity and ignores or avoids speaking of discontinuities or newness; at least
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