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Paul & His World: Interpreting the New Testament in Its Context is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume presents critical essays on theology and eschatology in Paul’s letters, the apostle’s religious and cultural context, and the interaction of early Christianity with its Greco-Roman environment, as reflected in ancient literature and archaeological remains.

not tolerate such things! With respect to these things, however, the discussion of ethical standards for the new community has not even begun. These are nonissues for the ethical criteria that instruct the conduct of the new community. What matters—and all that matters—is the question how one relates to one’s brothers and sisters in the community of the new age that endeavors to make God’s justice a reality already now in this world. Here only one principle determines what its members have to do:
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