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Paul and Palestinian Judaism: A Comparison of Patterns of Religion, 40th Anniversary Edition is unavailable, but you can change that!

This landmark work, which has shaped a generation of scholarship, compares the apostle Paul with contemporary Judaism, both understood on their own terms. E. P. Sanders proposes a methodology for comparing similar but distinct religious patterns, demolishes a flawed view of rabbinic Judaism still prevalent in much New Testament scholarship, and argues for a distinct understanding of the apostle...

or every religious concept within a religion. The term ‘pattern’ points toward the question of how one moves from the logical starting point to the logical conclusion of the religion. Excluded from the pattern proper are such speculative questions as how the world was created; when the end will come; what will be the nature of the afterlife; the identity of the Messiah; and the like. A great deal of the research which has investigated the relationship of Paul and Judaism and the relationships among
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