Purpose and Cause in Pauline Exegesis: Romans 1.16-4.25 and a New Approach to the Letters

Wendy Dabourne

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Purpose and Cause in Pauline Exegesis

Romans 1.16-4.25 and a New Approach to the Letters

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Wendy Dabourne

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: September 2009
Print publication year:: 1999
Online ISBN:: 9780511487941
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511487941

Subjects:: Biblical Studies - New Testament, Classical Literature, Religion
Series:: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (104)

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Three factors prompt this re-examination of the underlying questions that shape mainstream exegesis of Paul's letters. Hermeneutical studies have destabilized assumptions about the nature of meaning in texts; the letters are usually characterized as pastoral but explicated as expressions of Paul's thought; and the impact of E. P. Sanders' work on Paul has sharpened exegetical problems in Romans 1.16-4.25. The outcome is a two-step method of exegesis that considers a letter first in the light of the author's purpose in creating it and second as evidence for the patterns of thought from which it sprang. The passage appears as pastoral preaching, helping the Romans to deal with the implications of the fact that the God of Israel is now accepting believing Gentiles on the same basis as believing Jews. Justification by grace through faith emerges as the theological understanding of God's action in Christ that grounds pastoral speech.

‘… one can only commend this provocative work.’

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Purpose and Cause in Pauline Exegesis

Romans 1.16-4.25 and a New Approach to the Letters

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-ix

List of abbreviations
pp x-xii

1 - Asking new exegetical questions
pp 1-5

2 - Exegesis of Romans 1.16–4.25: the basic conception and its problems
pp 6-19

3 - Romans 1.16–4.25: what do we want to know?
pp 20-33

4 - The basis for separating presuppositions from intended address
pp 34-43

5 - How to trace what Paul was intending to say to the Romans
pp 44-46

6 - Working from the problems of interpretation within the justification framework
pp 47-62

7 - Paul's purpose in creating the text
pp 63-75

8 - The nature of the text
pp 76-108

9 - Hypothesis describing Romans 1.16–4.25
pp 109-114

10 - The teleological exposition of Romans 1.16–4.25
pp 115-170

11 - Testing the teleological reading
pp 171-181

12 - The causal exposition of Romans 1.16–4.25
pp 182-207

13 - Review and conclusion
pp 208-230

Select bibliography
pp 231-248

Index of biblical and other ancient sources
pp 249-255

General index
pp 256-257

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