Scott j hafemann biography examples

This collection of essays by Scott J.

Hafemann, former reader in New Testament studies at the University of St. Andrews, now retired, and author of numerous books on the Pauline corpus, builds on his earlier 1995 monograph Paul, Moses, and the History of Israel: The Letter/Spirit Contrast and the Argument from Scripture in 2 Corinthians 3, WUNT 81 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1995).

These essays seek to test the coherence of this earlier monograph’s conclusion that “Paul’s contrast between the old and new covenants is not a material, theological contrast between two distinct means of redemption … it is [rather] an eschatological, two-age contrast between the era of Israel … and the era of the church” (p.

xii).

Scott j hafemann biography examples

Thus, he has an eye toward the specifically “theological,” “salvific,” and “conceptual significance” of the texts in view (p. xiii). In sum, he is seeking to