Paul and Judaism Revisited: A Study of Divine and Human Agency in Salvation
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Overview
Ever since E. P. Sanders published Paul and Palestinian Judaism in 1977, students of Paul have been probing, weighing and debating the similarities and dissimilarities between the understandings of salvation in Judaism and in Paul. Do they really share a common notion of divine and human agency? Or do they differ at a deep level? And if so, how? Broadly speaking, the answers have lined up on either side of the old perspective and new perspective divide. But can we move beyond this impasse? Preston Sprinkle reviews the state of the question and then tackles the problem. Buried in the Old Testament’s Deuteronomic and prophetic perspectives on divine and human agency, he finds a key that starts to turn the rusted lock on Paul’s critique of Judaism. Here is a proposal that offers a new line of investigation and thinking about a crucial issue in Pauline theology.
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- Treats judiciously the most relevant Pauline passages.
- Unpacks the arguments for and against the ‘New Perspective on Paul’ in its many variations.
- Shows a fresh insight into the apostle’s thought.
Sprinkle has very usefully contributed to the ongoing debate about Paul’s soteriology in relationship to Judaism by rooting the question in key OT traditions and stressing the importance of the tension between divine and human agency
--Douglas J. Moo, Wessner Chair of Biblical Studies, Wheaton College, and chair, Committee on Bible Translation
Dr. Sprinkle’s study on Paul and Judaism serves to remind us not only that there are contributions still to be made but also of factors that make new contributions possible.... The result is fresh insight into the apostle’s thought and a more balanced perspective on its relation to contemporary Jewish thinking. And so the debate moves forward. Anyone interested in its current state must carefully consider Preston Sprinkle’s contribution.
--Stephen Westerholm, McMaster University
We might be tempted to think that there is nothing more to say about Paul’s soteriology and that the ground has been thoroughly plowed since the new perspective. Sprinkle opens new windows by comparing the soteriology of Qumran with Paul, particularly by emphasizing Paul’s distinctive slant on divine agency. Scholars and students will profit from this careful reappraisal of Paul’s soteriology which is rooted in robust exegesis.
--Thomas Schreiner, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
- Title: Paul and Judaism Revisited: A Study of Divine and Human Agency in Salvation
- Authors: Preston Sprinkle, Stephen Westerholm
- Publisher: IVP Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9780830895632, 0830895639
- Resource ID: LLS:9780830895632
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:52:14Z