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Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels brings together texts from three sets of lectures James Dunn gave in 2009 to Catholic and Jewish audiences in Italy, Spain, and Israel. The resulting book uniquely presents the Gospels to a Jewish audience and Paul to a Catholic audience—all from a scholarly Protestant perspective. Written to introduce well-informed people to unfamiliar topics, this book is ideal for...

There were three absolutely crucial figures in the first generation of Christianity—Peter, Paul and James the brother of Jesus.1 Of these, Paul probably played the most significant role in shaping Christianity. Prior to Paul what we now call ‘Christianity’ was no more than a messianic sect within first-century Judaism, or better, within Second Temple Judaism—‘the sect of the Nazarenes’ (Acts 24:5), the followers of ‘the Way’ (that
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