Reviews for The Romans Debate

The average rating for The Romans Debate based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-04-14 00:00:00 James Culverhouse An important volume for every teacher of Romans to have in their library.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-09-02 00:00:00 Michael Jones A strong collection of essays on the circumstances and theme of Romans. This book is the second edition and shows the evolution of thought from the late 20th century until now. Romans was largely thought of as a composite work or a work of multiple distributions (Jerusalem, Rome. e.g. Manson). But most commentators now see Rom 16 as part of the original letter and embrace its Roman destination. Particularly valuable are the contributions by Jervell who suggests that Romans is not directed towards Rome but towards Jerusalem and was thus seeking Roman approval of his message. Francis Watson proposes the existence of two congregations (or perhaps better two categories of congregations) in Rome who were unable to worship together due to their scruples of weak and strong. Aune and Jewett make strong cases for reading Romans with a rhetorical structure. Dunn and others close out with a clarification of the New Perspective and its implications.