"... There is, then, no single Jewish soteriology discernible apart from generalized hopes for God's granting something like peace, justice, and life to someone for some reason or another. Consequently, it is impossible to compress all narrations of the basis, agency, and scope of salvation in Judaism into a single soteric descriptor like covenantal nomism because the emphasis could fall upon either the "covenant" or the "nomism, depending on the peculiar dynamics of a given writing (and many writings themselves defy consistency in terms of their pattern of divine action and prescribed human response), To justify this claim, one does not have to look far for contrary statements that declare that performance of righteous deeds are the basis of a person's standing before God or the condition of entering into the future age (e.g., Wisdom of Solomon 5:15; 6:18; Psalms of Solomon 9:3-5; 1QS 3-4; 4 Ezra 7:77: 8.33, 36; 2 Baruch 14:12; 51:7) ..."