Paul and Palestinian Judaism : a comparison of patterns of religion /
E. P. Sanders.
- 1st American ed.
- Philadelphia : Fortress Press, 1977.
- xviii, 627 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. 557-582.
Paul and Judaism in New Testament scholarship -- The holistic comparison of patterns of religion -- Sources -- Palestinian Judaism -- Tannaitic Literature -- The persistence of the view of Rabbinic religion as one of legalistic works-righteousness -- The use of Rabbinic material -- The nature of Tannaitic literature -- The election and the covenant -- Obedience and disobedience; reward and punishment -- Reward and punishment and the world to come -- Salvation by membership in the covenant and atonement -- Poper religious behaviour: zakah and tsadaq -- The gentiles -- The nature of religious life and experience -- The dead sea scrolls -- Introduction -- The covenant and the covenant people -- Election and predestination -- The commandments -- Fulfilment and transgression; the nature of sin; reward and punishment -- Atonement -- The righteousness of God and the righteousness of man -- The religious life -- Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha -- Ben Sirach -- I Enoch -- Jubilees -- The Psalms of Solomon -- IV Ezra -- Palestinian Judaism -- Paul -- Pauline soteriology -- The law, the human plight and the relationship of the solutions to it -- Covenantal nomism in Paul -- Judment by works and salvation by grace -- Coherence, relevance and sources
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Dead Sea scrolls. Bible.--Apocrypha--Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible.--Epistles of Paul--Theology.
Tannaim. Apocryphal books (Old Testament)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.