Reading Romans in Context: Paul and Second Temple Judaism - Softcover

Zondervan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0310517958 ISBN 13: 9780310517955

Publisher: Zondervan Academic, 2015

Synopsis

Readers of Paul today are more than ever aware of the importance of interpreting Paul’s letters in their Jewish context. In Reading Romans in Context a team of Pauline scholars go beyond a general introduction that surveys historical events and theological themes and explore Paul’s letter to the Romans in light of Second Temple Jewish literature.

In this non-technical collection of short essays, beginning and intermediate students are given a chance to see firsthand what makes Paul a distinctive thinker in relation to his Jewish contemporaries. Following the narrative progression of Romans, each chapter pairs a major unit of the letter with one or more thematically related Jewish text, introduces and explores the theological nuances of the comparative text, and shows how these ideas illuminate our understanding of the book of Romans.

About this title

About the Author

Ben C. Blackwell (PhD, University of Durham) is associate professor of early Christianity at Houston Baptist University. He has authored a number of essays and articles related to Historical Theology and the New Testament, including Christosis: Engaging Pauline Soteriology with His Patristic Interpreters. He is currently working on new monograph: Participating in the Righteousness of God: Justification in Pauline Theology. He also served as a co-editor for several volumes: Paul and the Apocalyptic Imagination; Reading Romans in Context: Paul and Second Temple Judaism; and Reading Mark in Context: Jesus and Second Temple Judaism.

Jason Maston (PhD, University of Durham) is Lecturer in New Testament at Highland Theological College UHI (UK). He is the author of Divine and Human Agency in Second Temple Judaism and Paul: A Comparative Approach and contributor to and co-editor (with Michael F. Bird) of Earliest Christian History: History, Literature and Theology. Essays from the Tyndale Fellowship in Honor of Martin Hengel.

 

Review

"Reading Romans in Context is of great value to the reader who is coming to the world of Second Temple Judaism for the first time. Light is shone on various possible interrelationships between Paul and his world, such that the reader will find much that is of use heuristically when reading Romans in context." Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society "The concept and approach of the volume are to be commended, as the book provides an accessible introduction to important texts that many may otherwise find intimidating or dismiss as irrelevant, and the brevity of the volume facilitates its inclusion as a supplement in a variety of introductory or intermediate-level courses." Journal of Theological Studies

Edition details

• Publisher: Zondervan Academic
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0310517958
• ISBN 13: 9780310517955
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Blackwell Ben C., Goodrich John K., Maston Jason