Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

Symbolism (1960); ‘The Crisis of Tradition in
Jewish Messianism’ (1968): Paul read the Old
Testament ‘against the grain’. The incredible
violence with which he did so, shows ... how
incompatible his experience was with the meaning
of the old books.... The result was the paradox that
never ceases to amaze us when we read the
Pauline Epistles: on the one hand, the Old
Testament is preserved; on the other, its original
meaning is completely set aside. || The religious
strategy of Paul ... [is] downright antinomian.
Hans Joachim Schoeps, Paul: The Theology
of the Apostle in the Light of Jewish Religious
History (English translation 1961): [Drawing a]
stark contrast between the religion of the law and
the religion of grace,... Paul had lost all
understanding of the character of the Hebraic
berith [covenant] as a partnership involving mutual
obligations, [and thus] he failed to grasp the inner
meaning of the Mosaic law.
Max Dimont, Jews, God, and History (1962):
If Paul had lived today, he might have ended up on
a psychiatrist's couch. Throughout his life he was
overwhelmed with an all-pervasive sense of guilt
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