[5: Joel Marcus] Bart Ehrman’s “New Insights Into The New Testament” Conference (2024 Apostle Paul)
In this talk Marcus discusses how to understand Paul being negative about the Law in some places and positive about it in others. For instance, Paul offers a more positive version of the Law in Romans, which may reflect a significant Jewish-Christian population of the church in Rome (that Paul did not found). Paul says he was a Jew to the Jews, and a gentile to the gentiles to win both.
What was Paul’s own view on his Judaism? Marcus finds a helpful explanation in Rosenzweig:
There is the ambiguity in that Jews who reject Christ are enemies of God, and yet blessed because God chose Abraham and his children forever.