The Other Pharisees
Paul Was Not Alone. Five More Figures — Each With Pharisaic Formation or Authority — Each Shaping What Was Remembered, What Was Preserved, and What Was Lost. The previous article in this series documented what Paul's Pharisaic formation produced in Christian theology: the abolition of the deeds-based criterion, the replacement of Asha with faith alone, the displacement of James — the eyewitness — by a man who had never met Jesus and almost never quoted him. But Paul did not operate in isolation.
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Paul Was Not Alone. Five More Figures — Each With Pharisaic Formation or Authority — Each Shaping What Was Remembered, What Was Preserved, and What Was Lost. The previous article in this series documented what Paul's Pharisaic formation produced in Christian theology: the abolition of the deeds-based criterion, the replacement of Asha with faith alone, the displacement of James — the eyewitness — by a man who had never met Jesus and almost never quoted him. But Paul did not operate in isolation. The theological displacement of Jesus's message was not a single event executed by a single figure. It was a pattern — structural, recurring, and enacted by multiple people across multiple generations. Each of the figures below carried Pharisaic formation or Pharisaic-style interpretive authority into a critical moment. Each shaped what survived, what was remembered, and what was erased.
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