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Bird argues that Jesus was attempting to achieve and enact the restoration of Israel, and in continuity with other strands of Jewish belief, Jesus conceived of the restoration of Israel as resulting in the salvation of the gentiles. Jesus’ mission was Israel-centric, but he espoused a view of restoration that was indebted to certain strands of Israel’s sacred traditions where the gentiles are...

the response to Paul’s ‘Damascus road’ experience.13 According to Galatians, Paul’s gospel, the revelation to preach to the Gentiles, and his apostleship are conferred directly by the exalted Lord Jesus and not mediated via the Jerusalem ‘pillars’ (Gal. 1:11–2:10). When Paul attempts to justify his Gentile mission, it is never a defence of the mission itself, but only an apology for his authority as the apostle to the Gentiles and for the law-free terms upon which he conducted his mission.
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