Corpus-Paul

["Tim Gallant" <tim AT rabbisaul.com>]

Ed Krentz wrote,

> I want to say this as clearly as I can. Mark Nanos is a good exegete and a 
> good interpeter of
> Paul. His books on Romans and Galatians have much to teach all Christian 
> interpreters of Paul.
>
> In some ways I initiated part of this discussion with my comments on 
> Pauline letters that do not
> cite the Torah. I want to say bluntly, Paul is not one who says Jews and 
> Jewish Christians should
> not observe the law.

Presumably these comments were directed primarily toward me. And I want to 
say bluntly (as I did in another post): Neither do I think that Paul said 
that Jews and Jewish Christians should not observe the law - although, as I 
made equally clear, I do contend that Paul held that Jewish Christians were 
not *de jure* under the Mosaic covenant - a separate question which we would 
do well to attend to. Too much of Pauline discussion is confused by failure 
to make proper distinctions in what is a very sophisticated view of the 
relationship between Torah and the Christian faith.

And none of my comments were in any way intended as a denigration of Dr 
Nanos, notwithstanding some rather obvious disagreements.

tim

Tim Gallant
Pastor, Conrad Christian Reformed Church

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