Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels by Richard B. Hays

In the process of completing this book, Hays experienced serious medical issues that both delayed the volume and raised questions about whether it would even be completed. Three decades later, Hays has provided a new generation of students with a similarly titled volume aimed at examining intertextuality in the canonical gospels.

Among those contributions is his now classic treatment of intertextuality in the Pauline literature, Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993)-one of the primary works through which a generation of students was introduced to the subject. Hays, the recently retired George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity school, is well known for his important contributions to New Testament studies. 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.Richard B. 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 Hubner, 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.

Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels by Richard B. Hays