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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...

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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