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Arguing with Scripture: The Rhetoric of Quotations in the Letters of Paul is unavailable, but you can change that!

Drawing on recent discussions of quotations in the fields of rhetoric, linguistics, and literary studies, Stanley argues that Paul’s explicit appeals to Jewish Scriptures must be analyzed as rhetorical devices that seek to influence the thoughts, feelings, and actions of a first-century audience, an approach that requires a different set of questions and methods than scholars have typically used...

The apostle Paul labored for most of his adult life to establish Christian house-churches in the towns and cities of the northeast Mediterranean basin. Some of his followers were Jews, but most came from non-Jewish backgrounds. Why, then, did Paul quote so often from the Jewish Scriptures in his letters to these churches? Did he have reason to believe that his predominately Gentile audiences were capable of following his often obscure arguments from specific biblical texts? Or was he
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