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This collection of essays integrates scholarly and scriptural interpretations, Eastern Orthodox biblical scholarship, together with biblical interpretations throughout church history. Unlike the Western interpretations that read Romans in terms of theological anthropology, the Greek Fathers don’t presuppose such a concept. Each of the articles in Greek Patristic and Eastern Orthodox...

God and that Scripture as a whole has to be seen in the perspective of this absolute novelty. Paul’s exegesis is surely much indebted to early rabbinic forms and methods of interpretation.18 It is very little influenced by the allegorical interpretation, as practiced by Philo of Alexandria. In contradiction to Philo, Paul—and the New Testament authors in general—never denied the reality of Old Testament history. But in Paul’s letters and in all the New Testament writings, there is something totally
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