Although Munck did not explicitly deal with the question of Paul’s relation to Judaism, his supposition that Paul’s whole activity was dominated by his eschatological outlook helped to drive home the point that Paul is to be understood on the basis of his Jewish background—and Palestinian Jewish at that.23 Here he followed somewhat in the footsteps of Schweitzer, who saw apocalypticism as the dominating influence in Paul as well as in Jesus.24 Schweitzer also, however, had not sought to deal thoroughly