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The Textual History of the Letter to the Romans: A Study in Textual and Literary Criticism is unavailable, but you can change that!

This monograph is a defense of the literary unity of the book of Romans, a subject that has been treated in terms of textual criticism or of literary criticism, but not, until now, comprehensively with respect to both fields of research. A long-standing critical question is whether the letter to the Romans originally contained only the material now known as chapters 1–14 or perhaps 1–15. The...

to Rome in 1:7 and 1:15 and the personalia of the final two chapters, and then added the doxology to bring the resultant fourteen-chapter text to a suitable conclusion. Thus Paul put the letter into circulation in a more general form. The various features of the textual tradition are to be explained, then, as the consequence of later attempts to combine two Pauline forms of the letter. This is a simple explanation, and its value is enhanced by its capacity to explain the facts of the subsequent tradition
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