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Bibliography: Romans
Overview
Cobb, John B., Jr., and David J. Lull. Romans. CCT. St. Louis: Chalice, 2005.
Haacker, Klaus. The Theology of Paul’s Letter to the Romans. NTT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Johnson, Luke Timothy. Reading Romans: A Literary and Theological Commentary. RNTS. Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 1999.
Keck, Leander. Romans. ANTC. Nashville: Abingdon, 2005.
Moo, Douglas J. Encountering the Book of Romans. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2002.
Panning, Armin J. Romans. People’s Bible Commentary. Rev. ed. St. Louis: Concordia, 2004.
Talbert, Charles H. Romans. SHBC. Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 2002.
Wright, Tom. Paul for Everyone: Romans. 2 vols. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2004.
Critical Commentaries
Achtemeier, Paul. Romans. Interpretation. Atlanta: John Knox, 1985.
Barrett, C. K. A Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans. HNTC. New York: Harper & Row, 1958.
Byrne, Brendan. Romans. SP. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 2007.
Cranfield, C E. B. Romans. 2 vols. ICC. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1975–79.
Dunn, James D. G. Romans. 2 vols. WBC 38. Dallas: Word, 1988.
Fitzmyer, Joseph A. Romans. AB 33. New York: Doubleday, 1993.
Harrisville, Roy A., III. Romans. ACNT. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1980.
Jewett, Robert. Romans. Hermeneia. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007.
Moo, Douglas J. The Epistle to the Romans. NICNT. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.
Morris, Leon. Romans. PNTC. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988.
Schreiner, Thomas R. Romans. BECNT. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 1998.
Stuhlmacher, Peter. Paul’s Letter to the Romans. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1994.
Talbert, Charles H. Romans. SHBC. Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 2002.
Witherington, Ben, III. Paul’s Letter to the Romans: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.
Purpose of the Letter to the Romans
Bryan, Christopher. A Preface to Romans: Notes on the Epistle in Its Literary and Cultural Setting. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Das, A. Andrew. Solving the Romans Debate. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007.
Donfried, Karl P., ed. The Romans Debate. Rev. ed. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1991.
Esler, Philip F. Conflict and Identity in Romans: The Social Setting of Paul’s Letter. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003.
Kaylor, R. David. Paul’s Covenant Community: Jew and Gentile in Rome. Atlanta: John Knox, 1988.
Nanos, Mark. The Mystery of Romans: The Jewish Context for Paul’s Letter. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996.
Stowers, Stanley K. A Rereading of Romans: Justice, Jews, and Gentiles. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
Wedderburn, A. J. M. The Reasons for Romans. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.
The Rhetoric of Romans
Elliott, Neil. The Rhetoric of Romans: Argumentative Constraint and Strategy and Paul’s Dialogue with Judaism. JSNTSup 45. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1990.
Stowers, Stanley K. The Diatribe and Paul’s Letter to the Romans. SBLDS 57. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1981.
Tobin, Thomas H. Paul’s Rhetoric in Its Contexts: The Argument of Romans. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2004.
“Righteousness” in Romans
Bird, Michael F. The Saving Righteousness of God: Studies on Paul, Justification and the New Perspective. PBM. Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2007.
Campbell, Douglas A. The Rhetoric of Righteousness in Romans 3.21–26. JSNTSup 65. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1992.
Käsemann, Ernst. Commentary on Romans. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994.
“Justification” in Romans
General Studies
Bell, Richard H. No One Seeks for God: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Romans 1.18–3.20. WUNT 106. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1998.
Boers, Hendrikus. The Justification of the Gentiles: Paul’s Letters to the Galatians and Romans. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994.
Käsemann, Ernst. Commentary on Romans. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980.
Lambrecht, Jan, and Richard W. Thompson. Justification by Faith: The Implications of Romans 3:27–31. ZS. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1989.
Broader Studies on “Justification” in Paul’s Thought
Aune, David E., ed. Rereading Paul Together: Protestant and Catholic Perspectives on Justification. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006.
Bird, Michael F. The Saving Righteousness of God: Studies on Paul, Justification and the New Perspective. PBM. Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2007.
Seifrid, Mark. Christ, Our Righteousness: Paul’s Theology of Justification. NSBT. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000.
———. Justification by Faith: The Origin and Development of a Central Pauline Theme. NovTSup 68. Leiden: Brill, 1992.
Stuhlmacher, Peter, with Donald Hagner. Revisiting Paul’s Doctrine of Justification: A Challenge to the New Perspective. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2001.
VanLandingham, Chris. Judgment and Justification in Early Judaism and the Apostle Paul. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2006.
“Obedience of Faith” in Romans
Davies, Glenn. Faith and Obedience in Romans: A Study in Romans 1–4. JSNTSup 39. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1990.
Garlington, Don. Faith, Obedience, and Perseverance: Aspects of Paul’s Letter to the Romans. WUNT 79. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1994.
Miller, James C. The Obedience of Faith, the Eschatological People of God, and the Purpose of Romans. SBLDS 177. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2000.
Minear, Paul S. The Obedience of Faith: The Purposes of Paul in the Epistle to the Romans. SBT. Naperville, IL: Allenson, 1971.
Death and Resurrection of Christ, and Effects for Humanity
Brondos, David A. Paul on the Cross: Reconstructing the Apostle’s Story of Redemption. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006.
Cousar, Charles B. A Theology of the Cross: The Death of Jesus in the Pauline Letters. OBT. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990.
Finlan, Stephen. The Background and Content of Paul’s Cultic Atonement Metaphors. SBLAcBib 19. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004.
Hamerton-Kelly, Robert G. Sacred Violence: Paul’s Hermeneutic of the Cross. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992.
McLean, B. Hudson. The Cursed Christ: Mediterranean Expulsion Rituals and Pauline Soteriology. JSNTSup 126. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996.
Seeley, David. The Noble Death: Graeco-Roman Martyrology and Paul’s Concept of Salvation. JSNTSup 28. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990.
Future Dimension of Salvation
Beker, J. Christiaan. The Triumph of God: The Essence of Paul’s Thought. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1990.
Gieniusz, Andrzej. Romans 8:18–30: “Suffering Does Not Thwart the Future Glory.” USFISFCJ 9. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999.
Israel and the Jews
Das, A. Andrew. Paul and the Jews. LPS. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2003.
Gager, John G. Reinventing Paul. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Gatson, Lloyd. Paul and the Torah. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1987.
Harrington, Daniel J. Paul on the Mystery of Israel. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1992.
Kim, Johann D. God, Israel, and the Gentiles: Rhetoric and Situation in Romans 9–11. SBLDS 176. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2000.
Kuula, Kari. The Law, the Covenant and God’s Plan. Vol. 2, Paul’s Treatment of the Law and Israel in Romans. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003.
Lodge, John. Romans 9–11: A Reader-Response Analysis. USFISFCJ 6. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996.
Richardson, Peter. “Paul.” In Israel in the Apostolic Church, 70–158. SNTSMS 10. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969.
Paul’s View of the Law
Das, A. Andrew. Paul, the Law, and the Covenant. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2001.
Drane, John W. Paul: Libertine or Legalist? London: SPCK, 1975.
Dunn, James D. G., ed. Paul and the Mosaic Law. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1996.
Gaston, Lloyd. Paul and the Torah. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1987.
Hübner, Hans. Law in Paul’s Thought: A Contribution to the Development of Pauline Theology. SNTW. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1984.
Koperski, Veronica. What Are They Saying about Paul and the Law? Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2001.
Martin, Brice L. Christ and the Law in Paul. NovTSup 62. Leiden: Brill, 1989.
Räisänen, Heikki. Paul and the Law. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.
Sanders, E. P. Paul, the Law, and the Jewish People. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1983.
Schreiner, Thomas R. The Law and Its Fulfillment. A Pauline Theology of Law. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 1993.
Thielman, Frank. Paul and the Law: A Contextual Approach. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1994.
Thurén, Lauri. Derhetorizing Paul: A Dynamic Perspective on Pauline Theology and the Law. WUNT 124. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2000.
Tomson, Peter J. Paul and the Jewish Law: Halakha in the Letters of the Apostle to the Gentiles. CRINT 3/1. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990.
Westerholm, Stephen. Israel’s Law and the Church’s Faith: Paul and His Recent Interpreters. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988.
Winger, Michael. By What Law? The Meaning of Nomos in the Letters of Paul. SBLDS 128. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992.
Wright, N. T. The Climax of the Covenant: Christ and the Law in Pauline Theology. London: T&T Clark, 1991.
“Christ and the Law” in Romans
Bertone, John A. The Law of the Spirit: Experience of the Spirit and Displacement of the Law in Romans 8:1–6. SBL 86. New York: Peter Lang, 2005.
Kuula, Kari. The Law, the Covenant and God’s Plan. Vol. 2, Paul’s Treatment of the Law and Israel in Romans. Publications of the Finnish Exegetical Society 85. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003.
Rapa, Robert K. The Meaning of “Works of the Law” in Galatians and Romans. SBL 31. New York: Peter Lang, 2001.
Thielman, Frank. From Plight to Solution: A Jewish Framework for Understanding Paul’s View of the Law in Galatians and Romans. NovTSup 61. Leiden: Brill, 1989.
Obedience to Governing Authorities
Botha, Jan. Subject to Whose Authority? Multiple Readings of Romans 13. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1994.
Pilgrim, Walter E. Uneasy Neighbors: Church and State in the New Testament. OBT. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999.
Ethics in Romans
Ellis, J. Edward. Paul and Ancient Views of Sexual Desire: Paul’s Sexual Ethics in 1 Thessalonians 4, 1 Corinthians 7, and Romans 1. LNTS 354. London: T&T Clark, 2007.
Peng, Kuo-Wei. Hate the Evil, Hold Fast to the Good: Structuring Romans 12:1–15:1. LNTS 300. London: T&T Clark, 2006.
Reasoner, Mark. The Strong and the Weak: Romans 14:1–15:13 in Context. SNTSMS 103. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Thompson, Michael. Clothed with Christ: The Example and Teaching of Jesus in Romans 12:1–15:13. JSNTSup 59. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1991.
The New Perspective on Paul, with Emphasis on Romans
Dabourne, Wendy. Purpose and Cause in Pauline Exegesis: Romans 1.16–4.25 and a New Approach to the Letters. SNTSMS 104. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Dunn, James D. G. The New Perspective on Paul. Rev. ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007.
Watson, Francis. Paul, Judaism, and the Gentiles: A Sociological Approach, 88–176. SNTSMS 56. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986.
Other Academic Studies
Abasciano, Brian J. Paul’s Use of the Old Testament in Romans 9:1–9: An Intertextual and Theological Exegesis. LNTS 301. London: T&T Clark, 2005.
Berkley, Timothy W. From a Broken Covenant to Circumcision of the Heart: Pauline Intertextual Exegesis in Romans 2:17–29. SBLDS 175. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000.
Burke, Trevor J. Adopted into God’s Family: Exploring a Pauline Metaphor. NSBT 23. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006.
Campbell, William S., Peter S. Hawkins, and Brenda D. Schildgen, eds. Medieval Readings of Romans. New York: T&T Clark, 2007.
du Toit, A. B. Focusing on Paul: Persuasion and Theological Design in Romans and Galatians. Edited by C. Breytenbach and D. S. du Toit. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2007.
Epp, Eldon Jay. Junia: The First Woman Apostle. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005.
Gaca, Kathy L., and L. I. Welborn, eds. Early Patristic Readings of Romans. London: T&T Clark, 2005.
Gathercole, Simon J. Where Is Boasting? Early Jewish Soteriology and Paul’s Response in Romans 1–5. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.
Grenholm, Cristina, and Daniel Patte, eds. Reading Israel in Romans: Legitimacy and Plausibility of Divergent Interpretations. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2000.
Grieb, A. Katherine. The Story of Romans: A Narrative Defense of God’s Righteousness. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002.
Hahne, Harry Alan. The Corruption and Redemption of Creation: Nature in Romans 8:19–22 and Jewish Apocalyptic Literature. LNTS 336. London: T&T Clark, 2006.
Hay, David M., and E. Elizabeth Johnson, eds. Pauline Theology. Vol. 3, Romans. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 1995.
Jervis, L. Ann. At the Heart of the Gospel: Suffering in the Earliest Christian Message. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.
McGinn, Sheila E., ed. Celebrating Romans: Template for Pauline Theology; Essays in Honor of Robert Jewett. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.
Odell-Scott, David W., ed. Reading Romans with Contemporary Philosophers and Theologians. New York: T&T Clark, 2007.
Sabou, Sorin. Between Horror and Hope: Paul’s Metaphorical Language of “Death” in Romans 6:1–11. PBM. Waynesboro, GA: Paternoster, 2005.
Szypula, W. The Holy Spirit in the Eschatological Tension of Christian Life: An Exegetico-Theological Study of 2 Corinthians 5,1–5 and Romans 8,18–27. TGST 147. Rome: Editrice Pontifica Università Gregoriana, 2007.
Tellbe, Mikael. Paul between Synagogue and State: Christians, Jews, and Civic Authorities in 1 Thessalonians, Romans, and Philippians. ConBNT 34. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 2001.
Thorsteinsson, Runar M. Paul’s Interlocutor in Romans 2: Function and Identity in the Context of Ancient Epistolography. ConBNT 40. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 2003.
Westerholm, Stephen. Understanding Paul: The Early Christian Worldview of the Letter to the Romans. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2004.