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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...

As an expert in the “oracles of God” (Rom 3:2), might Paul have been regarded as a sort of “diviner” in his use of quotations from the Jewish Scriptures? The short, pithy sayings that he cites in his letters certainly have an oracular quality to them. As written oracles, they would have been venerated as revelations of the divine will, to be acknowledged and obeyed whether their meaning was clear or not. And the one who could produce such oracles on demand would invariably share in their luster.
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