“... If one understands the Pauline “works of the Law” in its Jewish use in Qumran, according to 4QMMT it refers to specific regulations of the Law in detail (more than 20 precepts). Rules and practices in 4QMMT define a boundary (between Jews and Jews), while for Paul “faith” is the central boundary (dividing humankind). Is “works of the Law” really “the Pauline term for ‘covenantal nomism’”?67 In 4QMMT the text gives many different rulings and practices by which those “who observe the Law” are “saved” (lcn) from the final judgment (cf. 1QpHab 8.1–2), because “it will be counted as righteousness” (a similar wording in Gal 3:6 and Rom 4:3, following Gen 15:6 LXX)68 “at the end of time” (4QMMT C 30–31 [= 4Q papMMTe (4Q398) frag. 14–17 2.6–7]).69 Paul argues against this decisive function of the Torah with its many rules and practices (but for the Qumran community see also the factor of divine grace, as described in C 7, below),70 turning down this function of the Torah by introducing “faith” in an un-Jewish way. ...”