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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...

as indicating God’s grace and of repentance as providing continuing access to forgiveness has been held either accurately to represent Judaism (the covenant conception receded in late Judaism) or to reveal ignorance of it. Jewish arrogance may be seen as under attack by Paul in the discussion of boasting in Rom. 3:27–4:5, and it has been maintained that smug self-satisfaction (as well as uncertainty of salvation) is evidenced in Rabbinic literature. Our analysis of Rabbinic and other Palestinian
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