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Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul
Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul

Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul

by Richard B. Hays

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Pages 254
Publisher Yale University Press
Published 1993
ISBN-13 9780300054293
Paul's letters, the earliest writings in the New Testament, are filled with allusions, images and quotations from the Old Testament. This book investigates Paul's appropriation of Scripture from a perspective based on recent literary-critical studies of intertextuality.
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Philibuster Philibuster January 29, 2013
An absolute must for Pauline studies. Hays shows Paul to be a poetic interpreter of Scripture, often exploding the world of the text through reference to a single part. Hays focuses on Paul's "ecclesiocentric hermeneutic" by which he reads Scripture as a word specifically to his communities. Hays informs all of this discussion through attention to careful exegesis.