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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...

to do with the law (3:15–18); the law has another purpose than salvation (3:19–24); in giving the law God intended to lead up to salvation through Christ (3:22, 24).51 With regard to righteousness by the law the “punch line” seems to be 3:21: righteousness cannot be by the law; no law has been given which can make alive. Thus the whole thrust of the argument is that righteousness was never, in God’s plan, intended to be by the law. This helps us see that the problem with the law is not that it cannot
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