Jesus or not. In effect, if not in intention, Jesus, while affirming various elements of the Law or even the Law as a whole, ultimately subverted the Law as a system of “legalistic” salvation. He thus paradoxically recaptured the ultimate thrust or intent of the Law: the radical doing of God’s will by loving one’s neighbor.8 In subverting, he fulfilled; in transcending, he distilled the essence. More recently, a number of Christian scholars have rejected the idea that Jesus consciously or unconsciously,