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In this volume, respected New Testament scholar Frank Matera examines cultural context and theological meaning in Romans. This commentary approaches each text in its final, canonical form, proceeding by sense units rather than word-by-word or verse-by-verse. Each sense unit is explored in three sections: introductory matters, tracing the train of thought, and key hermeneutical and theological...

superscription of this letter, “To the Romans,” can give the impression that Paul was writing to a single community, it is evident from his greetings in Rom. 16 that the Roman Christians belonged to different house churches. This may be the reason why Paul does not greet “the church at Rome” but writes “to those in Rome, God’s beloved” (1:7). But who were these believers to whom Paul was writing? Were they Jewish Christians who continued to practice the Mosaic law, or Gentile Christians who had been
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