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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...

could offer evidence that Jews, like Gentiles, practice the kinds of conduct that elicit God’s condemnation (2:17–29).24 This brings us to the passage that frames the quotation in 2:24. If the Romans had followed Paul to this point, they could hardly avoid seeing in the conduct of the apostrophized “Jew” (2:17–24) a concretization of the negative behaviors described (and condemned) in 2:1–16.25 Like all ad hominem arguments, the argument would have been effective only if the audience was willing
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