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12 - How Did Paul Read Scripture?

from Part III - Paul’s Theological Discourse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2020

By
David Lincicum
Edited by
Bruce W. Longenecker
Bruce W. Longenecker
Affiliation:
Baylor University, Texas
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Summary

Paul’s letters offer eloquent testimony to his profound activity as a reader of Israel’s scriptures. This chapter offers an overview of that activity, discussing Paul’s scriptural sources and citation technique, the variety of formal and material ways in which Paul engages scripture, and the rhetorical purposes for which he quotes.

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PaulGreek Jewish scripturescitation techniqueintertextualityOld Testament
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The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul , pp. 225 - 238
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Further Reading

Gamble, H. Y. Books and Readers in the Early Church: A History of Early Christian Texts. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.Google Scholar
Hays, Richard B. Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989.Google Scholar
Kujanpää, Katja. The Rhetorical Functions of Scriptural Quotations in Romans. Leiden: Brill, 2019.Google Scholar
Lincicum, David. Paul and the Early Jewish Encounter with Deuteronomy. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. Reprint, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Marcos, Natalio Fernández. The Septuagint in Context: Introduction to the Greek Versions of the Bible. Translated by Watson, Wilfred G. E.. Leiden: Brill, 2001.Google Scholar
Porter, Stanley E. “Pauline Techniques of Interweaving Scripture into His Letters.” In Paulinische Schriftrezeption: Grundlagen – Ausprägungen – Wirkungen – Wertungen, edited by Wilk, Florian and Öhler, Markus, 23–55. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Porter, Stanley E. “The Use of the Old Testament in the New: A Brief Comment on Method and Terminology.” In Early Christian Interpretation of the Scriptures of Israel: Investigations and Proposals, edited by Evans, C. A. and Sanders, J. A., 79–96. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.Google Scholar
Shum, Shiu-Lun. Paul’s Use of Isaiah in Romans: A Comparative Study of Paul’s Letter to the Romans and the Sibylline and Qumran Sectarian Texts. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002.Google Scholar
Stanley, Christopher D. Paul and the Language of Scripture: Citation Technique in the Pauline Epistles and Contemporary Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.Google Scholar
Stanley, Christopher D. Arguing with Scripture: The Rhetoric of Quotations in the Letters of Paul. London: T&T Clark, 2004.Google Scholar
Wagner, J. Ross. Heralds of the Good News: Isaiah and Paul in Concert in the Letter to the Romans. Leiden: Brill, 2002.Google Scholar
Watson, Francis. Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith. 2nd ed. London: T&T Clark, 2015.Google Scholar

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