Kent Yinger’s The New Perspective on Paul: An Introduction provides a readable, accessible, and historically based introduction to this now mature interpretive movement of Paul’s thought. Yinger explains the origins of the movement in the work of E.P. Sanders, notes the defining contribution of James D.G. Dunn, and explores the myriad trajectories other scholars have taken the New Perspective on Paul. Yinger rounds out his introduction by detailing the key exegetical and theological issues debated among scholars today.

A struggle is currently underway to figure out one of the central groups in the gospel story ... the Pharisees. Were they “hypocrites or heroes”? Or as one recent writer put it, maybe they were just “good guys with bad press.” Scholars of Judaism and of the NT have been painstakingly correcting, even rehabilitating, the image of the first-century Pharisees, but this seems not yet to have affected most readers of Scripture. Here at last is a book that lays out for the non-specialist the evidence for the origin and true nature of the Pharisees ... and challenges them to re-read the gospel stories with real Pharisees in mind rather than caricatures.

The language of perfection crops up regularly in the Bible, from Noah ("a just man and perfect in his generations," KJV) to Jesus ("be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly father is perfect," NRSV). Is flawless behavior what God expects, the only standard of righteousness that can satisfy him? Jewish tradition has long questioned this Christian assumption. Since Sanders and the New Perspective on Paul, it has come under increasing challenge from many directions. In Reclaiming Human Wholeness,…

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A struggle is currently underway to figure out one of the central groups in the gospel story . . . the Pharisees. Were they "hypocrites or heroes"? Or as one recent writer put it, maybe they were just "good guys with bad press." Scholars of Judaism and of the NT have been painstakingly correcting, even rehabilitating, the image of the first-century Pharisees, but this seems not yet to have affected most readers of Scripture. Here at last is a book that lays out for the non-specialist the evidence for the origin and true nature of the Pharisees . . . and challenges them to re-read the gospel stories with real Pharisees in mind rather than caricatures.

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