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The Partings of the Ways: Between Christianity and Judaism and Their Significance for the Character of Christianity is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Parting of the Ways is James D. G. Dunn’s classic exploration of the important questions that surround the emergence of Christian distinctiveness and the pulling apart of Christianity and Judaism in the first century AD. It begins by surveying questions asked since the time of F. C. Baur in the nineteenth century. The author then presents the four pillars of Judaism: monotheism, election and...

(c) Gal. 3:13. In the light of these findings, Gal. 3:13 also begins to make clearer sense. Verse 13 does not stand alone, but continues with a purpose clause: Jesus’ being cursed on the cross had the objective of extending the blessing of Abraham to the Gentiles ‘in Christ’ (3:14). The curse being removed was, by implication, a curse which prevented Gentiles being accepted into the covenant people, which rendered them inelligible for participation in the covenant promise to Abraham. What precisely
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