Sunday 17 May 2009

E P Sanders on Paul

Chagall - Abraham and the three angels


From E P Sanders' "Paul and Palestinian Judaism:"
The view that Rabbinic religion was a religion of legalistic works-righteousness in which a man was saved by fulfilling more commandments than he committed transgressions I have argued is completely wrong: it proceeds from theological presuppositions and is supported by systematically misunderstanding and misconstruing passages in Rabbinic literature.

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