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Justification and Variegated Nomism, Volume I: The Complexities of Second Temple Judaism is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the time since the publication of E. P. Sanders’ seminal work Paul and Palestinian Judaism, numerous publications, reviews, monographs, and analyses of this “New Perspective on Paul” have emerged, exploring covenantal nomism—but, in the estimation of the editors of these two volumes, little new ground has been tread. Editors D. A. Carson, Mark Seifrid, and Peter O’Brien bring together over a...

my transgression.… From the fountain of his righteousness is my judgement (וממקור צדקתקו משפטי).… And if I stumble, the mercies of God are my salvation for ever (חסדי אל ישוצתי לצד); and if I fall in guilt of the flesh, my judgement is by the righteousness of God (בצדקת אל) which endures eternally. (1QS 11:2–3, 5, 12) God’s righteousness and his righteous acts, therefore, constitute the salvation and justification of the individual. This is a notion which finds an explicit parallel in the apocryphal
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