With this we come to a critique of Sanders that distinguishes our “new covenant Jew” view from the “eschatological Jew” perspective. Though Sanders was absolutely correct to insist that the covenant context of the law is crucial to understand Jewish attitudes toward good works, John Barclay has offered a correction to Sanders’s view. Barclay maintains that Sanders has confused matters by his use of the language of “grace.” Briefly put, according to Barclay, Sanders assumes that one definition is