Arguing with Scripture: The Rhetoric of Quotations in the Letters of Paul. By Christopher D. Stanley. 208 pp. New York and London: T & T Clark, 2004. isbn 0 5670 2630 2. Paper £19.99
How could the original—mostly Gentile—recipients of Paul's letters possibly have understood what he was trying to say? This question has often occurred to me when I have been struggling to comprehend a passage in his writings which seems to assume that his readers will not only be familiar with...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 267-271 |
| Review of: | Arguing with Scripture (New York : T & T Clark, 2004) (Hooker, Morna Dorothy)
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| Summary: | How could the original—mostly Gentile—recipients of Paul's letters possibly have understood what he was trying to say? This question has often occurred to me when I have been struggling to comprehend a passage in his writings which seems to assume that his readers will not only be familiar with Scripture, but will be able to follow complex arguments of the kind that were employed by contemporary Jewish exegetes. It is, however, a question that commentators generally leave unanswered. Now Christopher Stanley attempts to deal with it in a book that asks why Paul used Scripture in some of his letters, not in others, and examines the impact that Paul's quotations might have made on his audience. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flj071 |