Rhetoric of Romans: Argumentative Constraint and Strategy and Paul's Dialogue With Judaism (Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement) - Hardcover

Elliott, Neil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1850752613 ISBN 13: 9781850752615

Publisher: UNKNO, 1990

Synopsis

In The Rhetoric of Romans, Neil Elliott presents a rhetorical- critical reading of the letter that indicates that Paul wrote, not to counter Jewish opponents or aspects of the Jewish religion, nor to legitimize the law-free gentile church, but to warn against elements of the Hellenistic church's Christology and an incipient Christian supersessionism that threatened the collection in Jerusalem and the heart of his apostolic work.

About this title

About the Author

Neil Elliott is Adjunct Professor at United Theological Seminary, New Brighton, Minnesota, and Chaplain at the University Episcopal Center, the University of Minnesota. Among his publications is Liberating Paul.

Review

"A quite new reading of the epistle.... Elliott sees Romans as essentially a paraenetic document, and with the help of literary and sociological arguments achieves a reading of chapters 1?4 which avoids many of the difficulties attached to other approaches.... Among the more important works on Romans to have appeared in recent years...."

Edition details

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1850752613
• ISBN 13: 9781850752615
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 322