Reading Romans in Context

Ben C. Blackwell (PhD, University of Durham) is associate professor of early Christianity at Houston Baptist University. He has authored a number of essays and articles related to Historical Theology and the New Testament, including Christosis: Engaging Pauline Soteriology with His Patristic Interpreters. He is currently working on new monograph: Participating in the Righteousness of God: Justification in Pauline Theology. He also served as a co-editor for several volumes: Paul and the Apocalyptic Imagination; Reading Romans in Context: Paul and Second Temple Judaism; and Reading Mark in Context: Jesus and Second Temple Judaism.Jason Maston (PhD, University of Durham) is Lecturer in New Testament at Highland Theological College UHI (UK). He is the author of Divine and Human Agency in Second Temple Judaism and Paul: A Comparative Approach and contributor to and co-editor (with Michael F. Bird) of Earliest Christian History: History, Literature and Theology. Essays from the Tyndale Fellowship in Honor of Martin Hengel.

• ForewordSimon Gathercole Introduction; History of the Second Temple PeriodEditors 1Messianism in Romans 1:1-17Wesley Hill 2Anthropology in Romans 1:18-2:5Jonathan Linebaugh 3Ethnicity in Romans 2:6-29Love Sechrest 4Works of the Law in Romans 3:1-20Aaron Sherwood 5God's Righteousness in Romans 3:21-31Jonathan Linebaugh 6Abraham's Faith in Romans 4:1-25Mariam Kamell 7Justification in Romans 5:1-11Mark Mathews 8Adam and/or Temporal Dualism in Romans 5:12-21Jonathan Worthington 9Personification in Romans 6:1-23Joseph Dodson 10Sin and Human Agency in Romans 7:1-25Jason Maston 11Spirit and Human Agency in Romans 8:1-13Kyle Wells 12Cosmology in Romans 8:14-39Ben Blackwell 13Election in Romans 9:1-29Orrey McFarland 14Righteousness and Law in Romans 9:30-10:21David Lincicum or Sarah Whittle (?) 15Israel's Salvation in Romans 11:1-36John Goodrich 16Community and Ethics in Romans 12:1-21Ben Dunson 17Politics in Romans 13:1-14Dean Pinter 18Anti-Semitism in Romans 14:1-15:13Nijay Gupta 19Almsgiving in Romans 15:14-33David Briones 20Women in Ministry in Romans 16:1-27Susan Mathew Epilogue: Reading Romans in Light of Second Temple Judaism; Glossary; Appendix: Basic Research ToolsEditors

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