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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...

this issue in Chapter IV has attracted insistent response and attention within the scholarly guild,6 this problem of translation plays a subsidiary role in the larger argument. The central thesis of the book is stated forthrightly in the opening pages and reiterated in the concluding chapter: a story about Jesus Christ is presupposed by Paul’s argument in Galatians, and his theological reflection attempts to articulate the meaning of that story. Thus, the book’s subtitle is a better guide to its
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