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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...

The first sentence of Paul’s letter to the Romans proclaims that “the gospel of God” was “promised beforehand through his prophets in holy texts” (en graphais hagiais). Even if, as many commentators have surmised, the uncharacteristic plural form graphais (“scriptures” rather than “Scripture”) signals Paul’s quotation of an already traditional Christian confessional formula,1 his placement of this tradition at the opening
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