We were waiting you for a long time. I’m glad to see you again. Please make more videos. This is my favorite KZfaq channel.

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What a wonderful surprise to see an unexpected return after a long wait from one of my favourite KZfaqrs!

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So glad to hear from you again Caleb! This seminary student always profits from your insight!

I have NEVER commented on any KZfaq video, but I thought your role as an IMMACULATE GRADER was hilarious... your tongue in cheek precision is laudable. I give you a 9.999/10 for a video well executed.

Happy to see the upload and that I subbed toward the end of the period of silence.

Thanks for the summary, nicely done! I used this book in my own research some years back. I agree largely with your assessment and I both appreciate and highly respect Sanders’ work on this volume. He certainly approached the subject with fewer biases than any scholar before him of which I am aware. I do believe he retained one important bias, however: that Paul was outside Judaism when he wrote his epistles. You are correct to say that Paul doesn’t have a problem with Covenantal Nomism. What I found striking is that Sanders proposes a different pattern for Paul’s theology which he names “Participationist Eschatology.” In my research I demonstrated how Participationist Eschatology actually fits completely within the pattern of Covenantal Nomism, and that therefore Paul is not writing from outside Judaism but rather writing still as a Jew. My conclusion in my analysis of Sanders was that it would be better to describe Participationist Eschatology as a stream within the pattern of Covenantal Nomism which alone could be open to Gentiles *as Gentiles*, and therefore bring the Abramic Covenant to its fullest expression. Sanders failed to see this because, for all his excellent scholarship, he still approached the topic from the standpoint that Paul was somehow outside Judaism, and therefore needed to describe the pattern differently.

Matthew J. Thomas' book on "Paul's Works of the Law" is proof the New Perspective is the original Christian perspective.

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Few months late, but like everyone else glad to have you back! Have learned a lot thanks to you channel, appreciate you doing it.

Nice summary, thank you!

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Hi Caleb! I am obtaining tremendous value from your reviews. Many thanks!

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This is great. Could you also explain Paula Fredriksen's book Paul: The Pagans Apostle?

Great video. Glad to see you back. I found your channel a few days after you uploaded your last video and was sad I hadn’t seen you upload again.

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Could you explain more about the Barthian school you think is a more convincing way to read about the relationship between the covenants? Strikes me as something New Covenant Theology says. I agree that the distinction between the two covenantal epochs in the NT is vast, as the NT’s use of the OT and its central hermeneutic capture. The NPP relies too much on saying that there is continuity between the OC and the NC-I think that is nearly impossible to reconcile with the internal mechanics of Pauline theology.

Loved the video, Caleb! Thank you for distilling these works for us normies. I would be interested to hear a summary of either/and/or "Harvesting the Fruits: Basic Aspects of Christian Faith in Ecumenical Dialogue" by Cardinal Walter Casper, and/or "Christianity in Fundamental Teachings" by The Joint Commission of Churches in Turkey. Both books attempt to find find the common ideas across the Christian Churches. Would love to hear your summaries!

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It's great to see you back brother...

One thing to do when reading PPJ is to read it with those who critiqued him in mind (e.g. Carson JVN, Barclay PATG). i.e. Was he really saying 'Get in by grace, Stay in by obedience'? Or did he talk about the role of repentance and forgiveness for sin in these Second Temple texts?

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Awesome video. Thank you for an understandable explanation. Durban, South Africa

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Just like Bobby Fisher, Caleb comes out of hiding and drops some videos! What does Mr. Sanders do with a verse like this? Romans 10:3 For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

EP Sanders could enrich our faith. His works are interesting and important for the historicity of Jesus.

This was interesting. Thanks

I care about what you think of the books Mr Smith!

A very helpful review. Many thanks! You’re ratings are out of this world though. 8.099? Who rates like this? 😂

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Well I have to take issue with one thing you said. Most, if not all of us, of course care what you personally think. We come back again and again for a reason dear friend.

In 1521, Luther, studying the Bible on his own, believed that he had "discovered" a long lost doctrine of justification by faith "alone" (a word he actually added to his translation of the NT) and thus the struggle between him and the Papacy became not primarily a struggle over clerical abuses as it started out in 1517, but a doctrinal disagreement over soteriology. Naturally, most future Protestants read Paul through this lens of Luther's and later Calvin's soteriological disputes with Rome, but it is not surprising that this perception is anachronistic. Likewise, Luther's inner angst and troubled conscience are often projected on to St. Paul, but this is very unlikely to be correct. I once read a little book, I think it was _The Wisdom of Psychopaths_ , whose author at one point argued quite persuasively that St. Paul had some of the personality traits that are typically associated with psychopaths - not that he was a psychopath, obviously not, but that he was someone who benefited from having a personality skewed in that direction, but not too far. Thus he was bold, intensely focused, indifferent to hardships, often confrontational, etc., to say nothing of having been a ruthless killer before his conversion, not at all the brooding, sensitive type that Luther was. When he was younger, Luther's confessor got tired of Luther coming so frequently to confess trivialities, whereas St. Paul's attitude was, "Your food was sacrificed to idols? Who cares? Just eat it, unless it scandalizes your brother, then don't eat it if he is looking." He went from being a bold and daring Pharisee to a bold and daring Christian who was apparently unrattled by facing near death on numerous occasions. I am sure he must have had a lower resting heart rate than Luther!

Amazing. Thankyou

Thanks, this was very helpful.

Hey Caleb, thanks so much for your channel! Have you ever done or considered doing a summary and review of Doug Cambells Deliverance of God? It’s got a great acronym (TDOG). And would fall right into line with some of the things you talked about toward the end of this video.

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Question for you. Why did you say there at the end that the NPP has died down. I'm curious as to what makes you say that? I keep seeing scholarship related to it being published. Maybe the heat is just gone from it; like those who could be convinced have been and the entrenched got tired of fighting about it?

I’m in the covenant bucket. The new covenant began with at the resurrection, the old covenant is obsolete, even though the principles can still be applied today.

Thank you for this brother can you recommend a good resource on actually understanding union with Christ?

I'm not sure that I would agree with it being the most important piece of biblical scholarship in the past 50 years, but it was one primary source for my masters thesis.

Would love to see a review of John Waltons Lost World of Genesis 1

Thanks for this.

it was very interesting/ thank you

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Terrific review. I have two questions. I have never heard a scholar or anyone defend the old perspective by claiming, "yes, Sanders is right. But, even though Judaism was a religion of grace, its adherents turned it into a religion of works. " It seems to me like a 'Paul' today would be justified in railing against Christianity for being a "religion of (fill in the blank . . . politics, works, bible worshipers, etc.)", while that is not what Christianity is at all. Fictional Paul would be railing again his perception of Christianity. Do you think that is what Paul was doing with Judaism? 2. I wonder why the New Perspective hasn't been criticized for being racist. In the OP, the big sin of the Jews was that they were legalistic and works based. In the NP, the sin of the Jews is that they think Jews get the grace of God and you have to become Jewish to experience the same grace. Am I correct? Historically accurate or not, does it not seem like the NP would be criticized for teaching that the Jews of the time were not legalistic, they just thought their race was better than everyone else's?

EP Sanders could enrich our mind and faith in Jesus Christ. I found him more interesting and stimulating than Fundamentalist and conservative scholars. NT Wright, James Dunn, and even Erhman affirm his deep scholarship. And because I'm tired of Evangelical and conservative reading of the Bible --- the liberals are more stimulating. In saying this, I remain Evangelical yet finding meaning to Sanders' "findings."

Soft nudge, promote that you’re on patreon within your videos or at least in the description of each… I bet you find that you have a lot of supporters on here. I’ve purchased and read over four dozen books from the titles you’ve reviewed or mentioned on your channel. Thank you. Keep up the great work.

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Thanks, the Jews encountered in the New Testament are seen as self righteous (e.g Luke 18), prepared to kill/stone anyone they thought blasphemed, used their own law to sneekily defraud (Korban), etc and then some were annoyed when they discovered they had "killed the Lord of Glory". To crown it all, God allowed the Temple to be destroyed in AD70.

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It has nothing to do with any religion at all. It is a relationship with God=Lord Jesus Christ. During the ancient times God=Lord Jesus Christ revealed to Moses and His other prophets what to write about Him while His Holy Bible book was being completed. This includes the prophesies. The proof is in the prophesies. Which only God=Lord Jesus Christ can fulfill. He has fulfilled all of the ones in the Old Testament part of the Bible. Including the Messianic prophesy. As it was also fulfilled by God=Lord Jesus Christ as stated in the New Testament part of the Bible as well. As He will fulfill the last two remaining prophesies in it as also mentioned in Revelation in the New Testament part as well. The next prophesy being judgement day God=Lord Jesus Christ's return. That day God=Lord Jesus Christ will defeat satan and his antichrist and their world dictatorship. He will restore the war torn earth. There will be a new earth and a new heaven. He will rule Israel and all of the nations on earth like in heaven and His kingdom will never end. He will also summon both the living and the dead that day. Everyone will be present. Even you. Those that have willingly accepted God=Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior and have personally confessed to Him their wrongdoings and have repented. Those will be spared of His judgement. Those will have fellowship with Him. Those will inherit eternal life from Him. Those will be of His seed and of Abraham's seed. While those that are either unrepentant wrongdoers or disbelievers , those will be judged of their wrongdoings by God=Lord Jesus Christ and then His angels will throw the poor condemned into the lake of fire and brimstone. Which resides down beneath the dark void. It is the second death. And satan and his rebel angels will be enchained and imprisoned in the dark void for a thousand years. After a thousand years have passed , they will be let out shortly to decieve the world again for a brief time. They are going to decieve many people into attacking the Holy city of Israel and then God=Lord Jesus Christ will call out fire from Heaven to consume them all. And then He will judge satan and his rebel angels for their evil rebellion towards Him and then His angels will throw satan and his rebel angels into the lake of fire. Where they will be forever with all of the people that they decieved before. It is the final prophesy. If you didn't know then now you know.

What the heck is Palestinians to do with Paul? ancestor of Hamas?

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