Romans : a commentary / Beverly Roberts Gaventa.
| Author/creator | Gaventa, Beverly Roberts author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, [2024] |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | lv, 492 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | The New Testament library New Testament library. ^A690603 |
| Abstract | Romans: A Commentary offers a fresh account of Paul's Letter to the Romans, attending to the dynamic character of the event of Jesus Christ as Paul presents it in this overture to his planned visit to Rome. Gaventa touches on vital concerns, including the Jewishness of Paul, apocalypse, the cosmic horizon of the gospel, and the role of women in emerging Roman Christianity. |
| Scope and content | "In this new contribution to the New Testament Library, renowned New Testament scholar Beverly Roberts Gaventa offers a fresh account of Paul's Letter to the Romans as an event, both in the sense that it reflects a particular historical moment in Paul's labors and in the sense that it reflects the event God brings about in the gospel Paul represents. Attention to that dual sense of event means that Gaventa attends to the literary, historical, and theological features of the letter. Throughout the commentary, Gaventa keeps in view central questions of what Paul hoped the letter might accomplish among its listeners in Rome and how his auditors might have heard it when read by Phoebe. In posing potential answers to these questions, Gaventa touches on vital themes such as the intrusion of the gospel of Jesus Christ that prompts Paul to write in the first place, what that event reveals about the situation of all creation, how it relates to both Israel and the Gentiles, and what its implications are for life in faith"-- Publisher's website. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [xix]-lv) and indexes. |
| ISBN | 9780664221003 |
| ISBN | 0664221009 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (electronic bk.) |
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