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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 have learned something about the Jewish Scriptures from their experience. Still others (probably the majority) entered the church with no prior knowledge of the Jewish Scriptures. Unless they were able to read, their familiarity with the biblical text would have been limited to whatever they were able to pick up via oral instruction and/or informal discussions within the church. Still others were new converts with little practical awareness of the Bible. And some (a tiny minority) could have
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