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Modern interpreters of Paul’s writings have typically assessed these texts in light of the exegetical and theological work of John Calvin, Martin Luther, and Philip Melanchthon. In the last few decades, a contrasting interpretive outlook—the “New Perspective” on Paul—has been articulated and developed by N. T. Wright and other scholars. This New Perspective, relying on a different set of...
James D. G. Dunn argued that the works of the law are actually not works done in an attempt to earn righteousness but instead are, in particular, those aspects of the Jewish law that serve to mark the boundaries between Jews and Gentiles. And those boundary markers—those key distinguishing features of Jewish life as opposed to Gentile life—are circumcision, the observance of the food laws, and the observance of the Sabbath. And so Dunn was arguing that when, in Romans and Galatians, Paul says “not
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