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Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 38B: Romans 9–16 is unavailable, but you can change that!

See Romans in the light of modern historical and cultural studies with this commentary from ground breaking scholar James D.G. Dunn. Dunn maintains that it is imperative to grasp the coherence of Paul’s thought as it moves with sustained logic and consistent rigor from the opening announcement of God’s righteousness revealed in Christ and the gospel through each interlocking section of this...

Israel’s covenant distinctiveness as the people of God. But Paul’s redefinition of the people of God had in effect removed that boundary marker. In reworking the role of the law in reference to the eschatological people of God what was to be done with the extensive sections of the law which deal with sacrifice and the centrality of the Jerusalem cult? Paul immediately provides the answer: he takes up cultic terms in order to redefine them too. The sacrifice God looks for is no longer that of beast
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