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Paul, a New Covenant Jew: Rethinking Pauline Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

After the landmark work of E. P. Sanders, the task of rightly accounting for Paul’s relationship to Judaism has dominated the last forty years of Pauline scholarship. Pitre, Barber, and Kincaid argue that Paul is best viewed as a new covenant Jew, a designation that allows the apostle to be fully Jewish, yet in a manner centered on the person and work of Jesus the Messiah. This new covenant...

Remarkably, even Philo, who speaks of the divine Word as a “second god,” insists that worship is to be directed only to the one God.89 There is also no evidence to suggest that worship involving sacrifice was ever rendered to God’s word or wisdom. These were likely viewed as part of the divine identity of YHWH.90 To sum up then, we can answer the question “What distinguishes Israel’s God from others?” as follows: the God of Israel (1) is the one God known as YHWH; (2) is the Creator and origin of
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