In the introduction to his book A Jewish Paul: The Messiah’s Herald to the Gentiles (2023), Matthew Thiessen says that his broad aim is to present a reading of Paul that does not perpetuate an old “Christian” or “Lutheran” view of Judaism as “inferior or even pernicious, something left behind or something that has died” (4). He will argue against the conclusion, reached even by many more recent interpreters who have rejected the old perspective, that “Paul must have thought something was inherently flawed with, wrong about, or absent from Judaism” (9). Thus, he aligns himself with the radical new perspective associated with William Campbell, Kathy Ehrensperger, Paula Fredriksen, Mark Nanos, and Magnus Zetterholm.
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