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2 - Paul and the Israel Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 November 2023

Jason A. Staples
Jason A. Staples
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North Carolina State University
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Summary

This chapter argues that Paul’s gospel was based on the conviction that God’s promises through the prophets—specifically the promise of a renewed covenant with Israel—were being fulfilled through Jesus’ death, resurrection, and the gift of the spirit. Working primarily from 2 Corinthians 3 and the central chapters of Romans, this chapter puts Paul in conversation with Jubilees, a variety of texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls (1QS, CD, 1QPHa, etc.), Philo of Alexandria, and more. The chapter demonstrates that all of these texts bear witness to a view of Israel as having fallen under the Torah’s curses for covenantal disobedience and awaiting a restoration that includes an ethical transformation through divine intervention.

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new covenantMosesveilcurse of the lawJubileesrestoration eschatologyjustificationdeathresurrectioneternal lifegloryministry of deathlaw written on the heartspiritpneuma
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Paul and the Resurrection of Israel
Jews, Former Gentiles, Israelites
 , pp. 68 - 106
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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