Tommy Wasserman

Romans

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Westerholm is here concerned with the history of interpretation of Romans from the Patristic era via the Middle Ages up to the twentieth century, and he begins, as one should, by paying close attention to the Greek manuscript tradition showing awareness of the fact that textual variants are an integral part of that history—the anonymous scribes were readers and interpreters, who at times sought to ‘improve’ the text, thus contributing to that rich history of interpretation with those theologians we know by name from Origen to Karl Barth.”