If You Call Yourself a Jew
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If You Call Yourself a Jew

Reappraising Paul's Letter to the Romans

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eBook - ePub

If You Call Yourself a Jew

Reappraising Paul's Letter to the Romans

About this book

If You Call Yourself a Jew reads Romans as a dialogue between Paul and a Gentile proselyte to Judaism. This fresh reading brings Romans into focus as Paul's exposition of the revelation of God's righteousness--his faithfulness to his covenant promises to Abraham, which climaxed in the announcement that "in you all the tribes of the earth will be blessed" (Gen 12: 3). Paul insists that the righteousness of God is revealed, "for the Jew first as well as for the Greek, " not through Torah but through the faith(fullness) of Jesus. Torah and the prophets provide corroborating witness for God's righteousness, but Gentiles who bend their necks to Torah's yoke miss the actual mechanism for finding peace with God. Paul found in the story of Jesus the image of complete faith in/faithfulness to God; in Jesus' resurrection he found the image of God's complete faithfulness, "for the Jew first as well as for the Greek." Whereas Torah resulted in curse and death, it also anticipated the unconditional faithfulness of God for both Jew and Gentile. For Paul, the gospel of Jesus Christ is the account of the outworking of God's faithfulness: the end of Torah's curses and the fulfillment of its blessings.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Chapter 1: Introduction
  5. Chapter 2: The Gospel, the Power of God
  6. Chapter 3: The Wrath and Impartial Judgment of God
  7. Chapter 4: Introducing the Gentile Proselyte
  8. Chapter 5: The Righteousness of God apart from Torah
  9. Chapter 6: Christ, the New Adam
  10. Chapter 7: Baptized, Buried, Raised
  11. Chapter 8: Nomos, Flesh, Spirit
  12. Chapter 9: Creation Renewed by the Spirit
  13. Chapter 10: Israel and Christ
  14. Chapter 11: Israel and Christ, Pt. II
  15. Chapter 12: [Re-]Grafted Olive Branches
  16. Chapter 13: Living Sacrifices
  17. Chapter 14: The Offering of the Weak
  18. Chapter 15: In Sum . . .
  19. Bibliography