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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