and appreciation for Paul as a reader of Scripture. My own work, particularly Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul,2 has played some role in encouraging this renewed interest, but I suspect several factors have converged to make Paul’s biblical interpretation a matter for lively attention at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. These factors include: the post-Holocaust reassessment of Judaism and the Jewish roots of Christianity; renewed dialogue between Jewish
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