My only qualification is that Paul’s “works of the flesh” (5:19–21) bear an uncommon resemblance to the prohibitions found in the Anatolian inscriptions and other Greco-Roman literature. Paul had his own set of ethical requirements, and they were not to be trifled with either. Nevertheless, the tone of the inscriptions and their detailed attention to moral infractions find a ready parallel in the law of Moses. Such an analogue would make all the more relevant Paul’s identification of the Torah as
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