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Perspectives of Jesus in the Writings of Paul: A Historical Examination of Shared Core Commitments with a View to Determining the Extent of Paul’s Dependence on Jesus is unavailable, but you can change that!

Was Paul shaped by the movement that began with the teaching and activities of Jesus, or did he start something new? Attempts to answer this question one way or the other have a long history dating back to the nineteenth century. Gerry Schoberg raises the question again in light of more recent scholarship—especially in light of historical Jesus research and the so-called “New Perspective” on...

a conflict between the respective cores of Jesus’ and Paul’s messages; and (viii) the one fundamental difference is that whereas Jesus understood himself as both messenger and agent of the kingdom of God, Paul saw himself only as messenger and as servant of his Lord—hence his focus on Christology rather than on the kingdom of God.19 The third form of response to the arguments of Baur and Wrede came in the form of attempts to detect evidence of the Jesus tradition
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