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Author Dabourne, Wendy

Title Purpose and Cause in Pauline Exegesis : Romans 1.16-4.25 and a New Approach to the Letters
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (271 pages)
Series Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 104
Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 104
Contents Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Asking new exegetical questions; 2 Exegesis of Romans 1.16-4.25: The basic conception and its problems; 3 Romans 1.16-4.25: What do we want to know?; 4 The basis for separating presuppositions from intended address; 5 How to trace what Paul was intending to say to the Romans; 6 Working from the problems of interpretation within the justification framework; 8 The nature of the text; 7 Paul's purpose in creating the text; 9 Hypothesis describing Romans 1.16-4.25; 10 The teleological exposition of Romans 1.16-4.25
11 Testing the teleological reading12 The causal exposition of Romans 1.16-4.25; 13 Review and conclusion; Select bibliography; Index of biblical and other ancient resources; General index
Summary This book is about how to read Paul's letters as first-century epistles. A new method is worked out by studying Romans 1.16-4.25. The result is a presentation of Romans as a highly practical letter, in which we see justification by grace through faith as theology at work
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Bible. Romans, I, 16-IV, 25 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Romans, I, 16-IV, 25 -- Socio-rhetorical criticism
Subject Socio-rhetorical criticism of sacred works
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511051319
051105131X