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The Faith of Jesus Christ: The Narrative Substructure of Galatians 3:1–4:11 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Widely praised as a major contribution to Pauline studies, Richard B. Hays's Faith of Jesus Christ now features, in this expanded second edition, a foreword by Luke Timothy Johnson, a new introduction by Hays, and a substantial dialogue with James D. G. Dunn. In this important study Hays argues against the mainstream that any attempt to account for the nature and method of Paul's theological...

a solitary individual whose triumph accrues only to his own benefit; he is a representative figure in whom the destiny of all God’s elect is embodied.77 Thus, all are justified through his faith. Their response to him, however, is also one of faith. Consequently, the statement ὁ δίκαιος ἐκ πίστεως ζήσεται can function for Paul on all three levels at once. Level (b) is logically dependent on level (a) for its validity. While level (c), which has usually been taken to represent Paul’s entire meaning,
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