Not long after Ed Sanders published Paul and Palestinian Judaism, and not long before Wayne Meeks brought out The First Urban Christians, a very different American scholar—to be accurate, American by residence, though Dutch by birth—produced a very different sort of work. In his remarkable Paul the Apostle: The Triumph of God in Life and Thought, J. Christiaan Beker, who taught at Princeton for many years, re-introduced into the discourse
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