Paul and the Torah
Overall it is a remarkable work: original, provocative, and lucidly argued. The arguments are such that at times the reader rubs his eyes in astonishment ... I would predict that even those who are not finally persuaded will, like me, never read Paul in quite the same way again ... The debate will go on. But it will not be the same debate now that Gaston's book has appeared. - S.G. Wilson, University of Toronto Quarterly Gaston's work is a scholarly and thought-provoking attempt to arrive at what Paul really said. Gaston is to be commended for his courage in presenting a point of view which he admits "runs against the grain of the entire Christian exegetical tradition." His work cannot be ignored; it forces Pauline scholars to re- examine old hypotheses and test new ones. - A. Edward Milton, Religious Studies and Theology (Paul and the Torah) "is an unqualified success in that it raises in a coherent and self-consistent fashion questions about Paul's view of Judaism itself and of the Torah that is central to Judaism. . . Paul and the Torah is must reading for anyone interested in a coherent Paul. - Peter Richardson, Toronto Journal of Theology