RT Article
T1 The Blessing of Israel and "the Curse of the Law" : A Study of Galatians 3:10-14
JF Studies in Christian-Jewish relations
VO 3
IS 1
A1 Smiles, Vincent M. 1949-
LA English
PB Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations
YR 2008
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1839194952
AB By the time he wrote Galatians, Paul was convinced that conservative Jewish-Christians were not the primary problem in the difficult debate they occasioned by their opposition to his gospel; the main problem was the Law itself and its power to require obedience to its own prescriptions. In Galatians, therefore, he turned his attack on the Law, portraying it as a "curse" on both Jews and Gentiles, the obedient and the disobedient. Paul’s critique of the Law has convinced some that Paul rejected the Jewish covenant, but the letters do not sustain that view. Paul separated the Law from the covenant, and though he abrogated the former, he never abandoned the ongoing value of the latter for both Gentiles and Jews.
K1 Blessing
K1 Covenant
K1 Curse
K1 Galatians
K1 Gentiles
K1 Israel
K1 Law
K1 Paul
K1 Righteousness
K1 Romans
DO 10.6017/scjr.v3i1.1481