Not My People: Gentiles as Exiles in Pauline Hermeneutics by David I. Starling

By David I. Starling

After a survey of contemporary methods to the research of Paul’s use of Scripture, the 4 major chapters discover using Isa. 54:1 in Gal. 4:27, the catena of scriptural texts in 2 Cor. 6:16–18, Hos. 1:10 and 2:23 in Rom. 9:25–26 and Isa. 57:19 in Eph. 2:17.
In each one case, the ancienwriter seeks to put the letter in its old context and rhetorical state of affairs, determine the importance of any conflations or alterations that experience taken position within the quotation procedure, examine the citation’s functionality inside its rapid context, evaluate its use by way of Paul with a few of the ways that the textual content is interpreted and appropriated by way of different moment Temple writers, and review the most proposals provided as motives for the riddle posed by way of the quotation. That performed, he bargains his personal account of the hermeneutic at paintings, in response to an research of the specific and implicit hermeneutical tips by which the letter courses its readers of their appropriation of Scripture.
This e-book compares the hermeneutical methods of the 4 letters and attracts conclusionsconcerning the interaction of continuity and discontinuity among Scripture and gospel in Paul's letters and the connection among grace and Gentile inclusion in his theology.

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