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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...

In these passages, Paul’s language reflects the common Jewish apocalyptic idea of “two worlds”—this present world, which Paul refers to as “this present evil age [aiōnos]” (Gal 1:4), and the world to come, which Paul calls the “new creation [kainē ktisis]” (Gal 6:15; 2 Cor 5:17).31 That said, Paul radically transfigures the standard Jewish concept of the two worlds when he makes the claim that through the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, “the world [kosmos]” was somehow put to death (Gal 6:14). This
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