hermeneutic; and the reading and the hermeneutic are intertwined, since the hermeneutic is itself an exegetical construct based on selected key texts. Like other Jewish theologies of this period, Pauline theology is intertextual in form, in the sense that it is constituted by its relation to an earlier corpus of texts that functions as communally normative scripture. This intertextual dimension becomes explicit in Paul’s scriptural citations, and we shall therefore focus especially on the texts in
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