scholarly debates have focused so much on the individual, seen in a hypothetical timeless moment of sin and/or forgiveness, that they have ignored this wider, but vital, context. It is not enough to prove, as Sanders, Charlesworth and many others have done quite satisfactorily, that first-century Jews were not in fact proto-Pelagians who thought that they could earn the divine forgiveness.116 The point at issue was not that Jesus was offering forgiveness where the rabbis were offering self-help