Corpus-Paul

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

At 09:05 PM 1/12/2005, you wrote:

> What Torah regulations will be observed, and what not? you ask, and who
> decides? Great questions. I do not see them as obstructions to the
> proposition that Torah continued to apply, but messy and interesting, making
> for just the kind of strange communal developments and texts of which we are
> aware. What would happen if instead of assuming that there were no issues
> along these lines we instead hypothesized their probable existence--since
> this was after all a movement that was begun by Jewish people for whom
> Torah's centrality could not be a priori dismissed--and tried to tease them
> out?

The grandest task of all in Pauline studies!

Thanks

Jim


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