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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...

prescribes a human response to the gospel in the form of “turning to God from idols” (1 Thess 1:9), “obey[ing] the gospel” (2 Thess 1:8), exhibiting the “obedience of faith” (Rom 1:5); persons need to “work out your salvation with fear and trembling” (Phil 2:12), and Paul knows of a judgment according to works (Rom 2:13–16; 14:12; 2 Cor 5:10). Paul’s gospel is both a gracious gift and a demand for new-covenant loyalty.14 It can be granted that Paul’s critique of Torah as a gateway to righteousness
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