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In recent years, scholars from both Christian and Jewish backgrounds have tried to rethink the relationship between earliest Christianity and its Jewish milieu. Paul has emerged as a central figure in this debate. The present book contributes to this scholarly discussion by seeing Paul and his Jewish contemporaries as, above all, readers of scripture. However different the conclusions they draw,...

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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