Earle Ellis, Theology Today 'A fresh interpretation of Paul's references to the Jewish Scriptures. Hays reads Paul's letters as literary texts shaped by complex intertextual relations with Scripture.'- America 'This book is sometimes insightful, sometimes puzzling, sometimes provocative, but never boring. It ought to be acquired for such audiences.'- Choice 'Elegantly produced. A new beginning for the question concerning the reception of the Old Testament in the New.'-Hans Hübner, Theologische Literaturzeitung 'This carefully argued study (which is fully indexed and thoroughly footnoted) will be of interest primarily to faculty and graduate students with interests in either biblical literature or literary methods of allusiveness. 'Hays has without doubt posed the right question at the right time within the horizon of a particularly important problematic. Hay, Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology Written in a lively, semipopular style, this important study succeeds in showing that Paul's scriptural quotations and allusions are often more 'polyphonic' and rhetorically meaningful than traditional exegesis has allowed.'-David M. Dunn, forthcoming in Literature and Theology 'A fresh interpretation of Paul's references to the Jewish Scriptures. A major contribution both to Pauline studies and to our understanding of earliest Christian theology as a living dialogue with the scriptures of Israel.'-James D. challenges not a few traditional or highly regarded readings. A new beginning for the question concerning the reception of the Old Testament in the New.'-Hans H bner, Theologische Literaturzeitung 'A powerful reading. Stockenhausen, Journal of Biblical Literature 'Hays has without doubt posed the right question at the right time within the horizon of a particularly important problematic. It is sophisticated, in both a literary and theological sense, and written with considerable wit and confidence.'-Carol L. Hays's study will be a work to use and to reckon with for every Pauline scholar and for every student of Paul's use of Old Testament traditions.

His uncovering of scriptural echoes in Paul's language enriches our appreciation of the complex literary texture of Paul's letters and offers new insights into his message. Hays investigates Paul's appropriation of Scripture from a perspective based on recent literary-critical studies of intertextuality. Paul's letters, the earliest writings in the New Testament, are filled with allusions, images, and quotations from the Old Testament, or, as Paul called it, Scripture.

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