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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 lead of the Spirit rather than in satisfying the appetites of the flesh. In the same way, Paul had been ready to set what elsewhere was an antithesis between faith and Law into a conjunction—the Law of faith (Rom. 3:27)—faith as that reliance on God14 out of which genuine obedience from the heart springs, faith as ‘establishing’ the Law (3:31), enabling the Law to exercise its true function; faith, that is, as the corollary to the new covenant law written on the heart. This raises again, as
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