The Hermeneutics of Christological Psalmody in Paul
The Hermeneutics of Christological Psalmody in Paul
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By re-examining the quotation of psalms in Paul, this book offers a fresh interpretation of the New Testament's reception of the Old Testament. Richard Hays's influential Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul astutely identified the rhetorical device of metalepsis, or echo, as central to the study of Pauline hermeneutics. Hays's Paul was in sympathetic dialogue with the voice of Scripture, but Matthew Scott now challenges this assumption with close readings of echoed psalms voiced by David and Christ. Paul's use of metalepsis in Romans and 2 Corinthians reveals him to be a provocative, even polemical, reader who appropriates the words of David for a Christological purpose. Scott also illustrates how Christ succeeds David as the premier psalmist in Paul and considers whether, in doing so, Christ acts as inheritor or iconoclast.
- Offers fresh and meticulous readings of New Testament quotations
- Refines a highly influential account of biblical intertextuality
- Addresses a fundamental debate over the continuity of the Old and New Testaments
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'Scott has produced a thought-provoking and stimulating study that is worthy of careful consideration.' Paul Foster, The Expository Times
Product details
July 2014Hardback
9781107056350
240 pages
223 × 146 × 17 mm
0.41kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Metalepsis and the Christological revision of psalmody in Paul
- 2. The Davidic psalmist in Romans
- 3. Christological psalmody in the service of formation: Romans 15:1-6
- 4. Christological cinema and the eclipse of the Davidic subject: Romans 15:9-12
- 5. Metalepsis and the voice of psalmody in 2 Corinthians 4.
