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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...

one day rescue his people from the plight of disobedience (6:17), put his Spirit in their midst (5:5; 7:6; 8:1–30) and make a new covenant with them (8:2). In chapter 8 the problem became acute when Paul attributed to the believing community Israel’s status as God’s adopted children (vv. 14–17; compare Hos 11:1) and asked, speaking of the relationship with God that Christ has established for the believer, “Who will bring charges against the elect of God?” (v. 33).36 All of this raises the question,
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