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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...

be kept is 3:10–14. In the argument to which these verses contribute (3:1–4:7), he claims that Gentile believers have no need of the law because they are already Abraham’s children and heirs of his blessing in virtue of their relationship to Christ. Much of Paul’s energy is devoted to arguing the positive point that Gentile believers are inheritors of the blessing promised to Abraham. In 3:10–13, however, he also makes the negative argument that “those who rely on the law are under a curse.” Paul
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