As it is Written: Studying Paul's Use of Scripture

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Stanley E. Porter, Christopher D. Stanley
Society of Biblical Lit, 2008 - Religion - 376 pages
This work examines the notion of the land and its conquest which are important subjects today for the formation of the Pentateuch. The sabbatical calendar, known from the books of Enoch and Jubilees and several Dead Sea Scrolls, is applied to the Pentateuch, revealing it as the calendar.
 

Contents

Charting the Course
3
Pauls Engagement with Scripture
13
Quotations
15
Allusions and Echoes
29
Scriptural Language and Ideas
41
Biblical Narratives
59
Paul and His Audiences
95
His Education andAccess to the Scriptures of Israel
97
An Intertextual Suggestion
189
Pursuing an Antiimperial Intertextuality in Romans
213
Paul and Scripture through Other Eyes
235
Paul and Writing
237
Marginality andin Early Biblical Interpretation
261
A Feminist Perception
291
Bibliography
321
Contributors
351

Why the Audience Matters
125
Synagogue Influence and Scriptural Knowledge among the Christians of Rome
157
Pauls Intertextual Backgrounds
187

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