Common Denominator

I've been posting reflections on the work of Jimmy Dunn, that great giant of biblical studies, my Doctorvater, who passed away this last...

Going to try to write the better part of a chapter today. The first section of the chapter is called "Paul and the Law." Here is t...

In the first chapter, we saw that one aspect of the recently revised perspectives on Paul and Judaism was a greater sense of the continuity ...

Working on a book I'm writing for Fortress called, A New Perspective on Hebrews .  This morning I wrote the following in relation to D. ...

I thought last night went well, very thankful.  Here's another excerpt from my novelistic portrayal of Paul: _____________ When we got...

From my presentation tonight: ________ But while I was on my way to Damascus, Jesus stopped me and tapped me on the shoulder and told me t...

Continued from yesterday ... ... Nor is it likely that Paul viewed himself as a moral failure before he "discovered" justificati...

1 Timothy focuses on a different part of the Jewish Law than Romans and Galatians do.  The focus of the Law Romans and Galatians is on “work...

The race is on to finish Paul 2... ______________ Enveloped in Paul’s thoughts about God’s plan for the Gentiles are some familiar verses....

The key to understanding Romans 6-8 is to understand the clear "before and after" Paul presents repeatedly throughout the section....

... In the first volume of this series, we argued that when Galatians uses the phrase "works of Law," Paul primarily had in mind t...

I am convinced that a great deal of our confusion comes from the fact that Paul glides seemlessly between a number of different meanings for...

Paul has used a question/answer style earlier in Romans to raise possible objections to his way of thinking and then to answer them. [1] He...

Final installment of the piece... ___________ So Paul certainly wanted his Jewish and Gentile audiences to conclude that the Gentiles did no...

Paul mentions several functions that the Jewish Law had in the story of salvation. One is that it informed Jews of exactly what God’s expect...

Take 2 (for Take 1, click here ): _________ Introduction Romans 3:31 is one of those verses that sounds so strange to us that we are prone t...

I thought I would take down some notes on the change that took place in the late twentieth century on our understanding of Judaism at the ti...

To follow the chain back, see the previous entry of this chapter, The Setting of Galatians. We continue with part 2 of chapter 8: "The...

I'm writing, not blogging, this week, but that doesn't stop me from posting some thoughts. I was describing Paul and the Law to a R...

The most recent edition of Christianity Today has an article by Simon Gathercole on the so called "new perspective" on Paul. We...