in Judaism, and particularly, the function of the law in Judaism, subjects given much careful study in recent years.34 As background we must briefly review the revolution in the study of first century Judaism that has taken place especially in the last twenty-five years, although the viewpoint was hardly unknown earlier. It was the great virtue of E. P. Sanders’s now famous book, Paul and Palestinian Judaism,35 to correct the widespread misunderstanding of Judaism as a religion of works righteousness