Paul, His Roman Audience, and the Adopted People of God: Understanding the Pauline Metaphor of Adopton in Romans As Authorial Audience: Understanding ... of Adoption in Romans as Authorial Audience - Rilegato

Watson, Edward W.

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ISBN 10: 0773449272 ISBN 13: 9780773449275

Casa editrice: Edwin Mellen Pr, 2008

Riassunto

This study utilizes the authorial audience's conceptual field provided by their Jewish and Greco-Roman context to explore Paul's metaphor of adoption in Romans 8-9. This study seeks to establish that the use of the metaphor of adoption as a literary construct in Romans would aid Paul's intended audience in the understanding of their Christian experience both in the present and at the eschaton. We seek to find support in the rhetoric of the text itself, as well as inclusions of terminology and interpretative conceptual markers that would make reading the text according to these options very natural. In the text of Romans, the term adoption describes the manner in which God brings believers into the people of God, bestowing upon them the rights, privileges, and obligations associated with sonship. Divine adoption, a blessing first given to the Jewish remnant, is now through the fulfillment of God's covenantal faithfulness, appropriated to God's eschatological people as a whole (i.e., believers made up of both Jews and Gentiles).

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L'autore:

Dr. Edward W. Watson is Associate Professor of Biblical Literature and Practical Theology at the Graduate School of Theology and Missions at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also serves as Chair of the Undergraduate Department of Theology at ORU. Dr. Watson holds as MA from ORU, a Th.M from Duke University and a Ph.D. in Biblical Literature from Baylor University.

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• Editore: Edwin Mellen Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0773449272
• ISBN 13: 9780773449275
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 237