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No issue in contemporary Pauline studies is more contested than Paul’s view of the law. Headline proponents of the “new perspective” on Paul, such as E. P. Sanders and J. D. G. Dunn, have maintained that the Reformational readings of Paul have led to distorted understandings of first-century Judaism, of Paul and particularly of Paul’s diagnosis of the Jewish situation under the law. Others have...

Instead, he says, he is willing to endure anything to advance the gospel (9:12). In 9:19–23 he illustrates the depth of his concern to “win” as many as possible by referring to his ministry among several social groups, each with particular characteristics. Paul explains that he is willing to give up his freedom and adopt the peculiar characteristics of each group in order to serve them more effectively: Although free from all people, I have enslaved myself to all people in order that I might win
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