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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...

The relationship between the covenant, the commandments and the requirement of obedience is one of the focal points of this study, and we shall see that the understanding of the relationship which is expressed in Sifre Num. 1—the reason for fulfilling the commandments is that God specified obedience as Israel’s response to the covenant, to God’s presence with his people—is the common understanding of the Tannaim. The precise way in which the Rabbis deal with the covenant, the commandments and obedience
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