The Apostle Paul and the Christian Life: Ethical and Missional Implications of the New Perspective (Biblia.com)

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The “new perspective” on Paul, an approach that seeks to reinterpret the apostle Paul and his letters against the backdrop of first-century Judaism, has been criticized by some as not having value for ordinary Christians living ordinary lives. In this volume, world-renowned scholars explore the implications of the new perspective on Paul for the Christian life and church. James D. G. Dunn, N. T....

The recent investigation into the Jewish world of the first century CE was made possible in no small part because of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls and recent archaeological finds.3 Moreover, theologians took to heart the sharp critique against anti-Semitism (and anti-Judaism) within twentieth-century Western Christianity.4 The NPP is first and foremost a theory describing Judaism during the later Persian and Hellenistic periods, beginning

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