ABSTRACT
N. T. Wright's The New Testament and the People of God promises to remain a relevant text in the academic disciplines of theology and New Testament studies. All the indications are that scholars will continue to analyze and develop a number of Wright's proposals in the coming years. The complexities of first-century Judaism, for example, are notorious. On the basis of his extensive survey of primary sources, Wright argues that early Christianity was inescapably Jewish in many important aspects of its theology. Barclay agrees with that first-century Judaism appreciated and affirmed the concept of grace with regard to salvation and that it was not a religion in which salvation had to be earned by obedience to the Law of Moses. Barclay has emphasized some matters that he believes were overlooked by Wright.
