Andrew,

I confess not to have read each comment here thoroughly, but (1) it would probably not be fair to say the NPP has a read of Romans 7, since we are dealing with three widely-different scholars — Sanders, Dunn, Wright, but (2) I suspect there is something here in the “Jewish Ego” — the one that finds “justification” (Wrightian sense) as a sociological boundary-making and that Paul struggled, as representative of that Ego, with the newness of a Gentile inclusive community.

The same Jewish Ego is found in Gal 2:15-21, at least that is the case I tried to make in my work on Galatians.

Maybe I’m off base on this on this post.