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Where Is Boasting?: Early Jewish Soteriology and Paul’s Response in Romans 1–5 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This important work challenges the validity of the “New Perspective” on Paul and Judaism. Working with new data from Jewish literature and a fresh reading of Romans 1–5, Simon Gathercole produces a far-reaching criticism of the current approach to Paul and points a new way forward. Building on a detailed examination of the past generation of scholarship on Paul and early Judaism, Gathercole’s...

out. Romans 4:22 concludes, “Therefore it was reckoned to him as righteousness.” This portrayal of Abraham as recipient of divine promise differs from the Jewish portrayal of Abraham as one who carries out the commandments78 (m. Ned. 3:11) and obeys the commandments of God (CD 3:2–4) for his justification. With Paul, Abraham is justified simply at the point at which he trusted the promise, before he had obeyed any of the commandments.79 In this sense, we can see Paul’s reinterpretation of the whole
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