Paul and the Gentile Problem

Paul and the Gentile Problem provides a new explanation for the apostle Paul''s statements about the Jewish law in his letters to the Romans and Galatians. Paul''s arguments against circumcision and the law in Romans 2 and his reading of Genesis 15-21 in Galatians 4:21-31 belong within a stream of Jewish thinking which rejected the possibility that gentiles could undergo circumcision and adopt the...