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The Conversion of the Imagination: Paul as Interpreter of Israel’s Scripture is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Conversion of the Imagination contains some of the best work on Paul by first-rate New Testament scholar Richard B. Hays. These essays probe Paul’s approach to scriptural interpretation, showing how Paul’s reading of the Hebrew Scriptures reshaped the theological vision of his churches. Hays’ analysis of intertextual echoes in Paul’s letters has touched off exciting debate among Pauline...

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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