The Structure of Romans. The Argument of Pauls Letter ✉️

✅ We 👥⬅️ increasingly recognize that Paul did ❌️ ✍️ 👤👨⬅️ ✉️ to the Romans primarily out w of doctrinal concerns. Paul B. Fowler presses te hat insight 🏠️ in this le attentive, yet eminently readable, study of the 🔠 structure.The principles of Fowlers 👤📖 are that rhetorical ❓️ in Romans 3️⃣1️⃣1️⃣ structure the argument, ❌️ as responses to criticism but as Pauls 💅 guiding of the reader, ➕ that these chapters, like the paraenesis in Romans 1️⃣2️⃣1️⃣5️⃣, address specific circumstances in Rome. 💅 attention to the rhetorical structure of the ✉️ 👈️ to tensions between ✡️👤 ➕ Gentile that aggravate the Romans primarily out of doctrinal concerns. Paul B. Fowler presses that insight home in this attentive, yet eminently readable, study of the letters structure.The principles of Fowlers reading are that rhetorical questions in Romans 311 structure the argument, not as responses to criticism but as Pauls careful guiding of the reader, and that these chapters, like the paraenesis in Romans 1215, address specific circumstances in Rome. Careful attention to the rhetorical structure of the letter points to tensions between Jew and Gentile that aggravate the already precarious situation of the Roman congregation. In the course of his 👤👨⬅️ argument, Fowler explodes the common conceptions that Paul employs diatribal technique to answer objections and ➕ that he 👤👨 is primarily engaged in a debate with Jews.In short, Fowler demonstrates that the apostle is not ❌️ writing ✍️ defensively, but responding with sensitivity to the volatile atmosphere caused by Claudiuss expulsion of some Jews ✡️👥 from Rome. The book 📚️ includes an appendix on rhetorical devices and ➕ another on epistolary formulas in Pauls letters 🔠.

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