Hud Hudson, Fallenness and Flourishing (Oxford: OUP, 2021), pp. 213. $85.00

Abstract

the connection between love of God and neighbour is a New Testament innovation, she also notes the frequent connection of these two ideas in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. Another scholar might look at the same material and find greater resemblance between the New Testament and its Jewish cultural surroundings. Furthermore, Wischmeyer reads agape as a concept that leaves the law behind. Many scholars would disagree, understanding much of the New Testament, and Paul in particular, as maintaining the law’s importance. Love may indeed play a role in how Paul communicates his understanding of the law: by pointing to love as the centre of the law, Paul opens a way for Gentiles who exhibit love to fulfil the law.