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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...

the continuity in relation to Israel, not in relation to Judaism;8 indeed, we may say that ‘Israel’ rather than ‘Judaism’ correlates to ‘promise’ rather than ‘covenant’. Here I find it hard to understand why Bill Campbell reacts so negatively to my observation that ‘A Christianity which does not understand itself in some proper sense as “Israel” forfeits its claim to the scriptures of Israel.’ It is hard to read Romans 9–11 in any other sense (‘some proper sense’). The subject of these chapters is
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