The New Covenant in the Letters of Paul and the Essene Documents

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Reference type: 
Book section
Author(s): 
Murphy-O'Connor, Jerome
year: 
2010
Full title: 

The New Covenant in the Letters of Paul and the Essene Documents

Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
Keys to Second Corinthians: Revisiting the Major Issues
Editor(s): 
Murphy‐O'Connor, Jerome
Publisher: 
Oxford University Press
Pages: 
51-64
Chapter: 
4
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
Abstract: 

The concept of a ‘new covenant’ was fundamentally alien to Paul's theology because inextricably bound to law. His use of it was a grudging concession to pressure from the Judaizers at Corinth. The formula ‘new covenant’ elsewhere appears only in the Damascus Document (6:19; 8:21; 20:12), where it is at the service of ‘the exact interpretation of the law’ (6:14; 20:29). The intruders intended the same legalistic sense.

URL: 
https://academic.oup.com/book/12193/chapter-abstract/161661413?redirectedFrom=fulltext
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199592104.003.0004
Record number: 
112 595