| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 264 pages) |
| Series |
Biblical interpretation series ; v. 100 |
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Biblical interpretation series ; v. 100.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- The ancestor in Greco-Roman culture: the case of Aeneas -- Abraham in Hellenistic-Jewish context -- The Shona ancestral cosmology -- Ancestry and descendancy in Romans 4 |
| Summary |
New Testament commentaries and exegetes have not paid sufficient attention to the context in which Paul's Epistel to the Romans was crafted. This book written from an African perspective offers a fresh interpretation on a contextualizing reading of Romans and its theology. The argument of the book is that Paul's construcntion of Abraham as a Spiritual ancestor of "all" faith people was based on his encounter with the Roman Ideology based on Aeneas as the founder of Rome. A juxtaposition of these two canonical ancestors needs to be considered in our 21st multi - ethnic Christian world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-262) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Abraham (Biblical patriarch)
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| SUBJECT |
Abraham (Biblical patriarch) fast |
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Bible. Romans, IV -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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| Subject |
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Paul's Letters.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004183339 |
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9004183337 |
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9789004181649 |
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9004181644 |
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