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Though Paul is often lauded as the first great Christian theologian and a champion for Gentile inclusion in the church, in his own time he was universally regarded as a strange and controversial person. In this book Pauline scholar Michael Bird explains why. An Anomalous Jew presents the figure of Paul in all his complexity with his blend of common and controversial Jewish beliefs and a faith in...

act that defeats death, set to transpire at the end of history,62 proleptically invades in the present by the raising up of the Son of God.63 In other words, God does for Jesus in the middle of history precisely what many Jews thought he would do for all Israel at the end of history.64 In fact, Jesus’ resurrection is a microcosm of the story of Israel, since resurrection, a metaphor for Israel’s political restoration, becomes a vivid and visible affirmation of Israel’s election in the resurrection
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