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Richard Hays has been a giant in the field of New Testament studies since the 1989 publication of his Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul. Now, his most significant essays of the past twenty-five years are collected here, representing the full fruition of major themes from his body of work: • the importance of narrative as the “glue” that holds the Bible together • the figural coherence...

(4) Theological exegesis attends to the literary wholeness of the individual scriptural witnesses. This, I would propose, is one of the signature contributions of biblical studies over the past fifty years to the task of theology. The Bible must be read neither as an anthology of disconnected theological sound bites nor, on the other hand, as a single undifferentiated story. Nor can its message be adequately grasped only through excerpts encountered in the church’s liturgy. Rather, the Bible contains
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