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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...

To be sure, there is much debate about what exactly “the New Perspective on Paul” entails and which scholars can be rightly characterized as belonging to this movement.13 Nevertheless, one thing seems indisputable: although forty years have passed since its publication, Pauline scholarship today continues to wrestle with the questions Sanders raised about Paul’s message and his relationship to Judaism. A quick glance at the titles in the veritable flood of recent studies published on Paul reveals
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