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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...

More difficult to evaluate, and more important, is the image of weighing people or their deeds in the scales of justice (44:5; 49:2; 52:15). This motif is known elsewhere, of course (1 En. 41:1; 61:8; Apoc. Zeph. 8:5), but its most influential source is biblical: God is the one who weighs the heart and repays all according to their deeds (Prov 24:12; cf. 16:2; 21:2; Job 31:6; Dan 5:27). This biblical text links the image of weighing with paying back according to deeds; 2 Enoch extends the formula
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