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Paul’s letters, the earliest writings in the New Testament, are filled with allusions, images, and quotations from the Old Testament, or, as Paul called it, Scripture. In this book, Richard B. Hays investigates Paul’s appropriation of Scripture from a perspective based on recent literary-critical studies of intertextuality. His uncovering of scriptural echoes in Paul’s language enriches our...

rarely have to worry about this problem. His practice of citation shows that he was acquainted with virtually the whole body of texts that were later acknowledged as canonical within Judaism,94 and that he expected his readers to share his acknowledgment of these texts as Scripture. This criterion implies that echo is a diachronic trope: analyses of literary echo are possible only where the chronological ordering of different voices is known. That is why, for example, attempts to demonstrate allusions
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