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This commentary adopts a literary-rhetorical approach, viewing the letter as an instrument of persuasion designed to transform readers through a celebratory presentation of the Gospel. Reflecting upon the fate of Jews and Gentiles, Paul wins his audience to a vision of a God who always acts inclusively. The God who, in the person of Israel’s Messiah (Jesus), has acted faithfully to include the...

identities and to social interactions between them (cf. N. Petersen, Rediscovering Paul [See Bibliography] 28–29, 57). (The “Great American Dream,” for example, would be an essential element in the “symbolic world” of most citizens of the United States.) It is in accordance with this “knowledge” that human beings are particularly motivated to change or to act. Hence appeal to or modification of the “symbolic universe” will be a key weapon in any strategy of persuasion—from campaigns to sell a particular
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