Matthew Montinoni shared the following quote from Craig Keener’s recent book, which I thought worth passing along:
Indeed, to assume from silence that Paul did not know the Jesus tradition because he does not cite it more explicitly and more often is almost analogous to assuming that the writer of 1 John was unaware of the Johannine Jesus tradition because the document presupposes rather than cites that tradition.
— Craig Keener, The Historical Jesus of the Gospels
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009) p.151.
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009) p.151. 
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