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A Theology of Paul and His Letters: The Gift of the New Realm in Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

A landmark study of the apostle’s writings by one of the world’s leading Pauline scholars This highly anticipated volume gives pastors, scholars, and all serious students of the New Testament exactly what they need for in-depth study and engagement with one of Christian history’s most formative thinkers and writers. A Theology of Paul and His Letters is a landmark study of the apostle’s writings...

Detecting allusions in Paul’s letters is an inevitably subjective, and therefore very contested enterprise. How many words must an Old Testament text and New Testament text have in common to justify an allusion? How unusual must these words be? To what extent should we consider audience capacity? How much Old Testament did Paul’s mainly gentile readers know? Richard Hays has sought to bring a bit more objectivity to the task by setting forth seven criteria.14 However, the criteria he identifies are,
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