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  • From: "John Dickson" <jdickson AT bigpond.com>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: passing over sins
  • Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 12:39:25 +1000

I have several questions concerning the concept of a divine overlooking/passing-over of the sins of a prior time. The notion, of course, is found in Paul in Rom 3:25 and was attributed to him in Acts 17:30.
I ask for responses to the following questions:
1) Do the two statements refer to the same motif? How do others read them?
2) If 'yes' to (1), to what extent may this notion be understood as a 'feature' of Paul's conception of those (gentiles?) before (without?) Christ? The fact that both statements appear in paradigmatic accounts of Paul's teaching is suggestive, is it not? 
3) What parallels to this notion are found in contemporary Jewish or non-Jewish literature? If possible, please point me toward primary texts rather than secondary ones.
Thank you in anticipation.
John Dickson
Department of Ancient History
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia



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