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James D. G. Dunn, Paul within Judaism: Restoring the First-Century Context to the Apostle. Edited by M ark D. N anos and M agnus Z etterholm . , The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 66, Issue 2, October 2015, Pages 782–784, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flv088
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T his volume introduces itself as a critique of ‘the new perspective on Paul’ and signals its principal objective in its title: ‘that Paul should be interpreted within Judaism’ (p. 1). One of the chief targets of the critique is my ‘The New Perspective on Paul’, published in the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 65 (1983), pp. 95–122, though, somewhat surprisingly, the fuller exposition in ‘The New Perspective on Paul: Whence, What, Whither’, published in The New Perspective on Paul (WUNT 185; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005), pp. 1–88 is never mentioned or considered.
The introductory essay by Mark Nanos makes some critique of the new perspective, though directed at whom is not at all clear. Its main purpose is to provide a summary of the subsequent eight essays. The ninth, by Terence Donaldson, invited to respond to the essays, as himself ‘an advocate of the New Perspective’ (p. 24), is also subjected to quite an extensive critique.
