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In what has become known as the New Perspective on Paul, Tom Wright has proposed a vision of the apostle’s central message that does full justice to all Paul’s letters. In particular, he focuses on the God-centered nature of Paul’s Gospel, arguing that “traditional” readings of Paul can suggest that the apostle’s message is simply about us: our sin, our justification, our salvation. Ambitious in...

First, many first-century Jews thought of themselves as living in a continuing narrative stretching from earliest times, through ancient prophecies, and on towards a climactic moment of deliverance which might come at any moment. Once again, we cannot say ‘all first-century Jews thought like this’, any more than you can say ‘all Americans like hamburgers’. But plenty do, and plenty did. They were not, in other words, understanding themselves as living in a narrative which said, ‘all humans are sinful
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