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This book is devoted both to the problem of Paul’s view of the Law as a whole, and to his thought about and relation to his fellow Jews. Building upon his previous study, the critically acclaimed Paul and Palestinian Judaism, E. P. Sanders explores Paul’s Jewishness by concentrating on his overall relationship to Jewish tradition and thought. Sanders addresses such topics as Paul’s use of...

specifically Christian thinking. That in itself is not unique when sins are being listed. Paul’s virtue and vice lists do not reflect a particularly Christian point of view. His more detailed discussions of behavior sometimes do (as in 1 Cor. 6:15–18), but in general Paul’s view of right and wrong behavior reflects standard Hellenistic Jewish thinking. Nevertheless, even when one considers that Paul is not always consistent, that he not infrequently incorporates and makes use of material which he
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