Barclay’s Gift
John Barclay’s Paul and the Gift features a powerful and illuminating comparison and contrast between Paul’s theology of grace and theologies of gift and reward in other Second Temple Jewish texts. Barclay is right to critique E.P. Sanders’s conflation of the priority of grace with other perfections...
| Published in: | Journal for the study of the New Testament |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2017]
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| In: |
Journal for the study of the New Testament
Year: 2017, Volume: 39, Issue: 3, Pages: 324-330 |
| Review of: | Paul and the gift (Grand Rapids, Michigan : Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2015) (Marcus, Joel)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Pauline letters
/ Early Judaism
/ Grace
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament HD Early Judaism NBK Soteriology |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | John Barclay’s Paul and the Gift features a powerful and illuminating comparison and contrast between Paul’s theology of grace and theologies of gift and reward in other Second Temple Jewish texts. Barclay is right to critique E.P. Sanders’s conflation of the priority of grace with other perfections of the gift concept, but his own assertion that Paul, like the author of 4 Ezra, regards the divine gift as necessarily circular is questionable. Both Paul and the author of 4 Ezra, rather, seem to leave open the possibility that God may freely bestow his grace on the unworthy, not only in this world, but also in the next. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5294 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "The Gift and its Perfections (2017)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the New Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0142064X17689990 |