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The Apostle employs the Scriptures more in Romans than in any of
his other letters. Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in Romans
advances the interpretation of Romans by exploring how the Apostle
Paul quoted, alluded to, or "echoed" the Jewish Scriptures.
Identification of allusions is at the forefront, as are questions
of methodology, the texture of Paul's theology, his understanding
of Scripture, and implications for other areas of Pauline studies,
such as empire-criticism.
This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the unity and
diversity behind biblical conceptions of "God." This is
accomplished by respecting the distinctive theology of each
canonical book and by placing reflection about God in conversation
with major themes of biblical theology--Christology, pneumatology,
anthropology. Four essays examine the Old Testament images of God
while ten essays address the way in which God is presented in the
New Testament. The volume is rounded off with an essay exploring
biblical preaching about God.
Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in Galatians and 1 Thessalonians
advances the interpretation of these letters by exploring how the
Apostle Paul quotes, alludes to or "echoes" the Jewish Scriptures
and other ancient materials. Comparative wording is at the
forefront, whether in relation to Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, or
prophecies and promises from Genesis, Habakkuk, Isaiah, Jeremiah,
Ezekiel, the Psalms, or other texts such as Philo. Issues and
controversies include such topics as faith (ἐκ πίστεως),
the Torah, the Holy Spirit, holiness, suffering, eschatology,
allegorical interpretation, identity of the Israel of God, Zion and
the return from exile, Roman piety, imperialism, and hidden
transcripts.
Much recent scholarship on Paul has searched for implicit
narratives behind Paul's scriptural allusions, especially in the
wake of Richard B. Hays's ground breaking work on the apostle's
appropriation of Scripture. A. Andrew Das reviews six proposals for
"grand thematic narratives" behind the logic of
Galatians-potentially, six explanations for the fabric of Paul's
theology: the covenant (N. T. Wright); the influx of nations to
Zion (Terence Donaldson); Isaac's near sacrifice (Scott Hahn, Alan
Segal); the Spirit as cloud in the wilderness (William Wilder); the
Exodus (James Scott, Sylvia Keesmaat); and the imperial cult (Bruce
Winter at al.). Das weighs each of these proposals exegetically and
finds them wanting-more examples of what Samuel Sandmel famously
labelled "parallelomania" than of sound exegetical method. He turns
at last to reflect on the risks of (admittedly alluring) totalizing
methods and lifts up a seventh proposal with greater claim to
evidence in the text of Galatians: Paul's allusions to Isaiah's
servant passages.
Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in 2 Corinthians and Philippians
advances the interpretation of 2 Corinthians and Philippians by
exploring how the Apostle Paul quotes, alludes to, or "echoes" the
Jewish Scriptures. Identification of allusions is at the forefront,
as are questions about the Torah, God's righteousness,
reconciliation, new creation, new covenant, Christology, lament
language, cultic metaphors, canon, rhetoric, and more.
Scholars have long debated the "double character" of Romans. Why
did Paul address a long discussion of Jewish themes to a Gentile
audience? Das provides a fresh understanding of the identity and
attitudes of the Gentile Christians in Rome and of the expulsion of
Jews from Rome under the emperor Claudius. His reading offers new
insight into Paul's concern for the Jewish roots of the Christ
movement.
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