Paul, the Law, and the Covenant (Biblia.com)

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The now-familiar “new perspective” asserts that the “covenantal nomism” characteristic of second-temple Judaism softened the Mosaic law’s requirement of perfect obedience. Because of God’s gracious covenant with Israel, manifested in election and in the provision of atoning sacrifices, one could be righteous under the law despite occasional failures to obey the law perfectly. This view concludes...

infraction of its strict requirements. Alan Segal is right to see Gal 3:10 as a first-century Pharisaic witness to the second-century rabbinic tradition of legal perfectionism represented by Gamaliel in m. ʾAbot 3:16.72 The situation for the law-observant Jew is no different than for “Gentile sinners.”73 “For if a law had been given that could make alive, then righteousness would indeed come through the law” (Gal 3:21). The curse of the law demonstrates that those under the law are entrapped with

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