The Rhetoric of Romans
Argumentative Constraint: and Strategy and Paul's Dialogue with Judaism
- Biblical Studies & Commentaries
- Publisher: Fortress Press (Augsburg Fortress)
- Published: 2006
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Publisher's Description
In The Rhetoric of Romans, Neil Elliott presents a rhetorical-critical reading of the letter that indicates that Paul wrote, not to counter Jewish opponents or aspects of the Jewish religion, nor to legitimize the law-free gentile church, but to warn against elements of the Hellenistic church's Christology and an incipient Christian supersessionism that threatened the collection in Jerusalem and the heart of his apostolic work.
Endorsements (2)
“A quite new reading of the epistle.... Elliott sees Romans as essentially a paraenetic document, and with the help of literary and sociological arguments achieves a reading of chapters 1–4 which avoids many of the difficulties attached to other approaches.... Among the more important works on Romans to have appeared in recent years....”
“Revolutionary ... It turns out that Romans is not Galatians writ large – our justification assured against Judaizers – but quite the reverse – our assurance put at stake in God's faithfulness to Israel. We gentiles who see ourselves as the apple of God's eye thus learn jealousy and repentance with Paul's Israel, so preparing the ground for the second inclusion that does not forget where alone righteousness lies or the way of grace that leads there.”
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