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Romans: A Structural, Thematic, & Exegetical Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Encounter Romans on its own terms. Paul’s majestic letter to the Romans has impacted generations of readers. Christians regularly turn to it as a foundation for theology and practice. All too often, however, individual verses are pulled from their context or later doctrinal formulations are mapped onto the text. Are we truly understanding Paul? What if we return to Romans on its own terms? ...

Verse 13 is a citation of Grk. Mal 1:2b–3a.40 Paul does not explicitly orient his citation, and the obvious link between the twins in Gen 25 and the nations in Mal 1 often draws Romans interpreters to presume that Rom 9:13 is meant to either accentuate or prove (by citing historical outcome) whatever point it is that they reckon Paul makes in v. 12. But the superficial similarities are in this case misleading. All relevant rabbinic sources (i.e., those not concerned with the relative comparison of
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