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Paul and Judaism: Crosscurrents in Pauline Exegesis and the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations is unavailable, but you can change that!

The ‘New Perspective on Paul’ cleared the Judaism of Paul’s day of the accusation that it was a religion based solely on works of righteousness. Reactions to the New Perspective, both positive and critical, and sometimes even strongly negative, reflect a more fundamental problem in the reception of this paradigm: the question of continuity and discontinuity between Judaism and Christianity and...

1. Present-day Judaism, in direct continuity with the emerging rabbinic Judaism of the post-70 and post-200 period; within this Judaism there is, of course, a number of subdivisions—Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Liberal, and so on. 2. Second Temple Judaism, which almost coincides with the post-biblical (post-Hebrew Bible) period; the diversity of Second Temple Judaism is well recognized today—including notably the ‘sects (haireseis)’ of Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes, the Nazarenes, but also the
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