Corpus-Paul

["Michael Thompson" <mbt2 AT cam.ac.uk>]

--On Wed, May 19, 1999 1:58 pm -0500 "Jeffrey B. Gibson"
<jgibson000 AT mailhost.chi.ameritech.net> wrote:

> If *my* memory serves, Gundry's article is in reaction to Sanders. So
while it may
> reflect the "old perspective, it does so while engaging with the arguments
of the new.
> I included it in my list since Jonathan Ryder had asked for counterpart
books/articles
> on the "new perspective" as well as those which would outline what the
"new
> perspective" involved.
>
> But Professor Gundry is now subscribed to C-P, so perhaps he himself would
like to
> speak to the issue.

You're absolutely right; I meant that his conclusion was critical of the new
perspective, not that he wrote in ignorance of it. Another critical response
can be found in D A Hagner, ³Paul and Judaism. The Jewish Matrix of Early
Christianity: Issues in the Current Debate.² Bulletin for Biblical Research
3 (1993) 111-130. He offers good bibliographical info and argues that the
new perspective is not a significant breakthrough; aspects of 1st c. Judaism
were legalistic and justification by faith remains central to Paul.

Mike Thompson
Cambridge, UK

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