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Article: Judgment and Justification in Early Judaism and the Apostle Paul
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- Trinity Journal
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- April 1, 2008
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Chris VanLandingham. Judgment and Justification in Early Judaism and the Apostle Paul. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2006. xvi + 384 pp. $29.95.
Chris VanLandingham's book Judgment and Justification in Early Judaism and the Apostle Paul is a revision of his doctoral dissertation completed at the University of Iowa under the supervision of George Nicklesburg. His rather provocative thesis is that the soteriological understanding of post-biblical Judaism and the Apostle Paul was not based on grace but on continued obedience to God's demands (p. 15). His primary scholarly interlocutor is E. P. Sanders's covenantal nomism in which Judaism during this period is understood as not based on a ...