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For centuries the apostle Paul has been invoked to justify oppression—whether on behalf of slavery, to enforce unquestioned obedience to the state, to silence women, or to legitimate anti-Semitism. To interpret Paul is thus to set foot on a terrible battleground between spiritual forces. But as Neil Elliott argues, the struggle to liberate human beings from the power of Death requires “Liberating...

As those familiar with current Pauline studies know, Bultmann’s synthesis no longer holds sway as it did earlier in this century. Decades ago, scholars of Judaism insisted that Paul’s attack on “Jewish works-righteousness” represented a “fundamental misapprehension” (Hans Joachim Schoeps), or was “from the Jewish point of view inexplicable” (George Foot Moore). More recently those criticisms have been supported by E. P. Sanders’s extensive analysis
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