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Traces the earliest receptions of "Paul's Letter to the Romans", seeking to elucidate their hermeneutical strategies as they endorse, explain, construct, and rework Romans as a normative authority. The essays in this volume rise to the challenge by explicating significant aspects of Paul's reception among early Christian readers.

Explores the works by philosophers and theologians who engage Paul's letter to the Romans by scholars in the fields of New Testament studies, theology and philosophy from North America and Europe. This book explores the impact of Romans upon theology, and upon cultural, political, social, and ecclesial life, and gender relations.

Discusses significant readings of "Romans" through twelfth and thirteenth centuries to the eve of Reformation. This volume attests the dominant role of scripture in communal life and witnesses to the pervasive influence of "Paul's letter to the Romans" in the flourishing discussions on Scripture and theology.

Contains essays that analyzes several Reformation theologians' interpretations of Romans as a whole or in part, some focusing on one particular interpreter, such as Erasmus, Luther, Calvin, Bullinger, and Bucer. This book includes information regarding the receptions of Romans throughout the history of the church.

Thus charting a new course involves more than offering new ways of reading Romans; it also involves clarifying the rationales for this new reading, in the light of the contextual, analytical, and hermeneutical frames of Scripture Criticism.

Joins several feminist commentators in showing how crucial Romans is for understanding Paul's view of gender. Divided into three parts, this volume features: mapping traditions in Romans; gendered traditions in Romans; and gender and the authority of Romans.

Focusing on modern exegetical studies of Romans, this title considers interpretations of Romans by philosophers, by theologians, and by biblical scholars. It includes information regarding the receptions of Romans throughout the history of the church and today, in the "first" and the "two-thirds" world.