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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...

sections coexist happily together in many different documents, for example, CD and 1QS.10 To take one example, in B 9–13, in the halakic section, there is the discussion of when the cereal offering is to be eaten. The author concludes: “For the sons of the priests should take care concerning this practice so as not to cause the people to bear punishment.” It is the end of the document that focuses on the function of works of Torah: We have indeed sent you some of the precepts of the Torah according
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