Corpus-Paul

["Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT mailhost.chi.ameritech.net>]

Jonathan Ryder wrote:

> Dear C-P,
>
> Following my earlier request ...
>
> First, thanks to Jeffrey, Mark and Mike for their responses.
>
> I've just read some of Dunn's earlier article which is useful as it starts 
> with
> Sanders, putting him in context, and then goes on to detail his own new 
> take on Paul
> as a result. I now have some initial questions which I'd be grateful if 
> C-Pers could
> comment on.
>
> Dunn characterises Sander's work (chiefly PPJ) as a new perspective on 
> Judaism (as
> mentioned as the 'presupposition' of the NP by Mike Thompson) and that 
> Sanders
> himself, and those initially responding to/running with Sanders, comes up 
> with very
> much an old perspective picture of Paul. Before turning to Paul himself, 
> has anyone
> seriously contested Sanders NP on Judaism (ie provided a real alternative), 
> whether
> from within Pauline studies or wider afield or can we say this is an 
> 'assured result'?
>
> Dunn proceeds with 'an exegesis and description of Paul's theology from this
> perspective'. Chiefly, he reassesses justification as (Jewish) covenant 
> language -
> speaking of God's recognition/acknowledgement that someone is in the 
> covenant rather
> than initiation or transfer terminology. Does Dunn hold the court here? or 
> are there
> significant alternative understandings of justification, as used by Paul, 
> whether by
> those who hold the new perspective or otherwise?
>

You'll probably want to have a look at the chapters "Good News for Israel" and
"Justification and the Church" in Tom Wright's _What Saint Paul Really Said_.

> I'd be grateful for any references (kept at 'beginners' level for a 'quick' 
> grasp of
> the issues), particularly re the 2nd question. Also, has anyone responded 
> directly to
> Dunn's exegesis of Gal 2:16 in that article?

Yes. See Heikki Raisanen, "Galatians 2:16 and Paul's Break with Judaism," NTS 
31 (1985)
543-553.

Yours,

Jeffrey
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