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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...

or via memory, in order to grasp the full significance of his repeated appeals to Scripture. This presumption implies the further belief that Paul’s audiences were capable of retracing his reading of the biblical text and uncovering for themselves the mostly unstated links that modern scholars have posited between Paul’s quotations and their original biblical contexts. At an even deeper level, this approach assumes that Paul’s audiences found his interpretations of Scripture to be perfectly reasonable
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