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Notes to Section III

1 I distinguish “should” from “do”; if the critical minimum is defined by what every scholar would accept, the critical minimum is virtually nothing. The outcome depends on the criteria employed, but the vast majority of scholars do accept more than “nothing”!

2 As Hays, “Victory,” 158, notes, one of the most brilliant aspects of N. T. Wright’s approach is his synthesis of material into a cohesive whole. Various approaches have produced competing cohesive explanations, of course. We have tried to focus on some of the most secure and certain elements.

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