The Rhetoric of Righteousness in Romans 3.21-26
Author: Douglas A. Campbell
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 185075294X
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Idioms of the Greek New Testament
Author: Stanley E. Porter
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1992-07-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781850753797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Greek grammar, newly revised and reset for the second edition, which is also available in paperback, can be used as an instructive handbook, as an intermediate level textbook and as a basic reference work to New Testament Greek. The major topics of Greek grammar are treated in a useful pedagodical sequence. Among the innovative treatments are those on tense and aspect, Mood and Attitude, conditional clauses, word order and clause structure, and discourse analysis. The grammar takes account both of the traditional categories of Greek grammar and of recent discussions on structural linguistics.
Rediscovering Righteousness in Romans
Author: David J. Southall
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9783161495366
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Why does the Apostle Paul personify righteousness as slave-master and athlete in Romans 6 and 9? David J. Southall explores Pauline personification as a trope of character invention in which righteousness becomes an equivalent term for Christ."--BOOK JACKET.
Morality, Not Mortality
Author: William Horst
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2022-05-23
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 166690029X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study argues that the language of “death” as a present human plight in Romans 5–8 is best understood against the background of Hellenistic moral-psychological discourse, in which “death” refers to a state of moral bondage in which a person’s rational will is dominated by passions associated with the body. It is death of this sort, rather than human mortality or a cosmic power called “Death,” that entered the world through the transgression of Adam and Eve in Eden. Moral death was imposed on humanity as a judgment against this initial transgression, in order to increase sinful behavior, which ultimately serves to increase the magnitude of the glorious revelation of God’s grace through Jesus Christ. Likewise, creation’s subjection to “corruption” and “futility” in Romans 8 involves the detrimental effects of human moral corruption, not the physical corruption of death and decay. Ultimately, the plight on which Paul focuses much of his attention throughout Rom 5–8 is a matter of morality, not mortality.
Rethinking Paul's Rhetorical Education
Author: Ryan S. Schellenberg
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Published: 2013-09-03
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 1589837800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies 2015 F. W. Beare Award Did Paul have formal training in Greco-Roman rhetoric, or did he learn what he knew of persuasion informally, as social practice? Pauline scholars recognize the importance of this question both for determining Paul’s social status and for conceptualizing the nature of his letters, but they have been unable to reach a consensus. Using 2 Corinthians 10–13 as a test case, Ryan Schellenberg undertakes a set of comparisons with non-Western speakers—most compellingly, the Seneca orator Red Jacket—to demonstrate that the rhetorical strategies Paul employs in this text are also attested in speakers known to have had no formal training in Greco-Roman rhetoric. Since there are no specific indicators of formal training in the way Paul uses these strategies, their appearance in his letters does not constitute evidence that Paul received formal rhetorical education.
Paul's Letter to the Romans
Author: Arland J. Hultgren
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2011-05-16
Total Pages: 833
ISBN-13: 0802826091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilding on his own translation from the Greek, Hultgren walks readers through Romans verse by verse, illuminating the text with helpful comments, probing into major puzzles, and highlighting the letter's most inspiring features. He also demonstrates the forward-looking, missional character of Paul's epistle -- written, as Hultgren suggests, to introduce Roman Christians to the major themes of Paul's theology and to inspire in them both confidence in the soundness of his teaching and support for his planned missionary efforts in Spain.
Steward of God's Mysteries
Author: Jerry L. Sumney
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0802873618
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne view that perennially springs up among biblical scholars is that Paul was the inventor of Christianity, or that Paul introduced the idea of a divine Christ to a church that earlier had simply followed the ethical teaching of a human Jesus. In this book Jerry Sumney responds to that claim by examining how, in reality, Paul drew on what the church already believed and confessed about Jesus. As he explores how Paul's theology relates to that of the broader early church, Sumney identifies where in the Christian tradition distinctive theological claims about Christ, his death, the nature of salvation, and eschatology first seem to appear. Without diminishing significant differences, Sumney describes what common traditions and beliefs various branches of the early church shared and compares them to Paul's thought. Sumney interacts directly with arguments made by those who claim Paul as the inventor of Christianity and approaches the questions raised by that claim in a fresh way.
An Exegetical Bibliography of the New Testament: Romans and Galatians
Author: Günter Wagner
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780865544680
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The Expositor's Bible Commentary
Author: Tremper Longman
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 0310235014
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is a complete revision of the Gold Medallion-winning commentary series. It is up to date in its discussion of theological and critical issues and thoroughly evangelical in its viewpoint."--Publisher description.
Abraham's Faith in Romans 4
Author: Benjamin Schliesser
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9783161491979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe concept of faith is at the core of Paul's theology, and the classic assage for his understanding of pistis is Genesis 15:6. After discussing the history of scholarship on the Pauline concept of faith, Benjamin Schliesser explores the literary, tradition-historical and structural questions of Genesis 15 and offers a detailed exegesis of verse 6 with its fundamental terms count, righteousness, and believe. He then points to the theological significance of this testimony on Abraham for the Jewish identity; it comes into sight in a multifaceted and nuanced process of reception, from later Old Testament texts (Psalm 106; Nehemiah 9) to a broad array of literature from Second Temple Judaism (Septuagint, Sirach 44, Jubilees 14, 4QPseudo-Jubilees, 4QMMT, 1Maccabees, Philo). In the final and most substantial step, he asks about Paul's hermeneutics of faith: How does Paul, in his exegesis of the Genesis quote in Romans 4, come to view Abraham as the father of all believers? What is the concept of faith that he develops on the basis of Genesis 15:6? Taking into account the manifold textual and thematic links between Romans 4, Romans 3:21-31, and Romans 1:16-17, a unique, twofold structure of faith discloses itself: Pistis designates first a divinely established sphere of power, i.e., a new, christologically determined salvation-historical reality, and second human participation in this reality, i.e., individual believing in the community of believers. Particularly the first aspect is generally overlooked in modern scholarship.
