Paul and Judaism Revisited: A Study of Divine and Human Agency in Salvation

Preston M Sprinkle

Aug 2013 · InterVarsity Press

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Preaching's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Reference for 2014 (Pauline Studies)

Ever since E. P. Sanders published Paul and Palestinian Judaism in 1977, students of Paul have been probing, weighing and debating the similarities and dissimilarities between the understandings of salvation in Judaism and in Paul. Do they really share a common notion of divine and human agency? Or do they differ at a deep level? And if so, how? Broadly speaking, the answers have lined up on either side of the old perspective and new perspective divide. But can we move beyond this impasse?Preston Sprinkle reviews the state of the question and then tackles the problem. Buried in the Old Testament's Deuteronomic and prophetic perspectives on divine and human agency, he finds a key that starts to turn the rusted lock on Paul's critique of Judaism. Here is a proposal that offers a new line of investigation and thinking about a crucial issue in Paulinetheology.

Preaching's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Reference for 2014 (Pauline Studies) Ever since E. P. Sanders published Paul and Palestinian Judaism in 1977, students of Paul have been probing, weighing and debating the similarities and dissimilarities between the understandings of salvation in Ju...

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Preston Sprinkle (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is associate professor of biblical studies at Eternity Bible College, Simi Valley, California. He is the author of Law and Life: The Interpretation of Leviticus 18:5 in Early Judaism and in Paul, coeditor (with Michael Bird) of The Faith of Jesus Christ and coauthor (with Francis Chan) of Erasing Hell.

Preston Sprinkle (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is associate professor of biblical studies at Eternity Bible College, Simi Valley, California. He is the author of Law and Life: The Interpretation of Leviticus 18:5 in Early Judaism and in Paul, coeditor (with Michael Bird) of The Faith of Jesus Chr...

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