Paul's interlocutor in Romans 2: function and identity in the context of ancient epistolography
Thorsteinsson concludes that Paul wrote Romans to a particular group of people in a specific, contemporaneous situation. The letter's message arose out of Paul's missionary obligation to proclaim God's "good news" to gentiles in Rome. The minority view that Paul's inter...
| Summary: | Thorsteinsson concludes that Paul wrote Romans to a particular group of people in a specific, contemporaneous situation. The letter's message arose out of Paul's missionary obligation to proclaim God's "good news" to gentiles in Rome. The minority view that Paul's interlocutor in 2:1-5 is a gentile is combined with the majority opinion that there is but one interlocutor throughout the chapter. In sum, "the common opinion that Romans 2 contains Paul's piercing critique of his fellow Jews should be rejected. The individual censured in the chapter is not a Jew." but a gentile who claims to be a Jew." |
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| ISBN: | 9122020470 |