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Christ Is God over All: Romans 9:5 in the Context of Romans 9–11 is unavailable, but you can change that!

George Carraway suggests that Paul meant to refer to Jesus as God in Romans 9:5, and that the apostle’s statement is not out of place in the given how Romans 9–11 unfolds. He addresses objections to this conclusion, responding to those who claim that a monotheist such as Paul would not refer to Jesus as God, and to those who point out that Paul does not elsewhere identify Jesus as God. After...

the Revidierte Lutherbibel of 1984 translates: “aus denen Christus herkommt nach dem Fleisch, der da ist Gott über alles, gelobt in Ewigkeit. Amen.” The New American Standard (Updated) leaves some of the ambiguity of the Greek text: “and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.” As I will seek to demonstrate, the syntax most naturally favors a reading that Christ is over all, God, blessed forever. It is my proposal that in the Christological
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