In 1984, in dialogue with Heikki Räisänen, I broadened the argument by seeking an explanation for the problematic Gal. 3:10 in the ‘social function’ of the law: that the law served to mark off, ‘separate’ Israel from the nations; that, as Gal. 2:1–16 had demonstrated, works of the law could function as boundary markers, rituals and practices which distinguished Israel from the nations.30 Might that provide the key to Paul’s objection?—that in speaking of ‘works of the law’ Paul had in mind this boundary-marking,
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