id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt s4655d89364 Michael Benjamin Cover Lifting the Veil: 2 Corinthians 3:7-18 in Light of Jewish Homiletic and Commentary Traditions 2013 .txt text/plain 366 14 34 Second, recognizing the presence of covenant renewal themes in both Paul's epistolary frame and in his midrashic excursus suggests that his opponents in 2 Corinthians were Hellenistic Jewish Christian missionaries. The contribution of this study is to read Paul's midrash through comparison with the forms and traditions of Hellenistic Jewish commentaries, particularly Philo of Alexandria's Allegorical Commentary. cache/s4655d89364.txt txt/s4655d89364.txt