Status Updates From Paul within Judaism: Restor...

These authors are trying to get beyond the NPP to some sort of hyper-NPP view. So far, there are some helpful ways of rereading a few passages, but there are some stunning omissions and problem passages that have not been addressed. On the whole, this project doesn't look like it will succeed.

[I]f Paul did not feel he needed to specify the newness of what he was proclaiming using a term that would distinguish his movement from "Judaism," historians should take that as an indication that, at this time and in the culture in which he lived, Paul's mission was a mission of a specific form of Judaism, which included the incorporation of non-Jews qua non-Jews.