Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, first acknowledged Jesus as the Messiah as a result of encountering him on the road to Damascus. Prior to that he had been known as Saul, a learned leader among the sect of Pharisees within Judaism in 1st century Judea, a student of Gamaliel the revered head of one of the two leading yeshivot in Jerusalem. His thinking and imagination had been shaped by deep acquaintance with the Torah, Wisdom Literature, and Prophets (Tanakh), what Christians in the modern age generally call "the Old Testament." How, exactly, did his biblically shaped mind and soul guide his composition of his letters? The quotations from scripture are clear enough, but a 2008 new awareness has led to the uncovering of systematic, sequential echoes of the Old Testament structure, theme, and vocabulary in Paul's letters. In this volume, we will explore those echoes between the book of Leviticus and the Epistle to the Romans.
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