Paul's Writing to a First Generation Group of Gentiles

Paul's writing to a first generation group of gentile christians who are trying to figure out what it means to live in this new messianic age. Paul would never have used the term because there's no new testament yet. But when many people talk about christianity in reference to the dead sea scrolls, they often think that we're looking for john the baptist or jesus in the dedse scrolls. Youare not going to find either of those figures in the scrolls. What you do find is precisely this type of redeployment use of the hebrew bible. This has been known for a long time. One of the earliest scrolls which was discovered and then dissemin