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Paul and the Stories of Israel: Grand Thematic Narratives in Galatians is unavailable, but you can change that!

Much recent scholarship on Paul has searched for implicit narratives behind Paul’s scriptural allusions, especially in the wake of Richard B. Hays’ groundbreaking work on the apostle’s appropriation of Scripture. A. Andrew Das reviews six proposals for “grand thematic narratives” behind the logic of Galatians—potentially, six explanations for the fabric of Paul’s theology: the covenant (N. T....

and the Spirit in 4:4–6.14 Although a confessional or sending formula is rather speculative, Kim’s alternative is not satisfactory either. Still another scholar, James D. G. Dunn, has linked the “sending” language to the gospel traditions in Mark 12:1–12, esp. 12:6–7, in which the father “sent” his son to check on the vineyard tenants.15 Such wildly varied hypotheses demonstrate that the notion of traditional material in Gal. 4:4–5 is incapable of proof and unlikely. As Richard Hays wrote years
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