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Paul and Palestinian Judaism compares Judaism, understood on its own terms, with Paul, understood on his own terms. Sanders aims to: • Consider methodologically how to compare two (or more) related but different religions • Destroy the view of Rabinic Judaism which is still prevalent in much, perhaps most, New Testament scholarship • Establish a different view of Rabbinic Judaism •...

typology which would account for dying and rising with Christ and a union which forms one body, in which all, both Jews and Greeks, are one person. The appeal here to ‘Israelite conceptions of personality and community’ is not persuasive.7 The Israelites were members of a group which God might collectively punish or reward, but passing through the waters of the Reed Sea did not make them members of one body. Further, ethics are not derived from anything which could be considered a new exodus, as
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