a comparison of patterns of religion Sanders, E. P. creator text bibliography pau Philadelphia Fortress Press 1977 1st American ed. monographic eng

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xviii, 627 pages ; 24 cm. 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 E. P. Sanders. Includes indexes. Bibliography: p. 557-582. Criticism, interpretation, etc Theology Tannaim Apocryphal books (Old Testament) Criticism, interpretation, etc BM 177 .S2 1977 296.3 9780800618995 76062612 DLC 771007 20231030141528.0 4600069 spa