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Paul and Scripture: Studying the New Testament Use of the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

"[Moyise] is eminently successful in providing an introductory text that would be a useful companion to an upper-level undergraduate or seminary course on Paul and his letters." ~ David Lincicum, Religious Studies Review. There are over one hundred explicit quotations of Scripture in Paul's letters and at least two hundred allusions. The coming of Jesus and the birth of the church caused Paul...

of Judaism. Indeed, one of the reasons the Sadducees did not accept the doctrine of resurrection was that it cannot be demonstrated from the Torah (hence the significance of Jesus’ reply in Mark 12:18–27). The second section is divided into the former prophets - what Christians would call the historical books from Joshua to 2 Kings - and the latter prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and the Twelve). This was also relatively fixed, though texts found at Qumran show that there were variations in both
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