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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...

election, the covenant and the law; and it is because these are wrong that the means appropriate to ‘righteousness according to the law’ (Torah observance and repentance) are held to be wrong or are not mentioned. In short, this is what Paul finds wrong in Judaism: it is not Christianity. It is not one of the conclusions of this study that one of the patterns which we have described is superior to the other. I am not completely opposed to passing value judgments on ancient religions, although one
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