An Intertextual Commentary on Romans, Volume 2: Romans 5:1—8:39
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Overview
An Intertextual Commentary on Romans is an exhaustive treatment of the hundreds of Old Testament citations, allusions, and echoes embedded in Paul's most famous epistle. As many scholars have acknowledged, to understand Paul's engagement with Israel's Scriptures is to understand Romans. Despite this acknowledgement, there is a dearth of reference works in which the primary focus is how the Old Testament impacts Paul's argument from Romans 1:1 to Romans 16:27. This four-volume commentary aims to provide just such a reference. The interplay between Romans and its vast sea of Old Testament pre-texts produces unstated points of resonance that illuminate Paul's rhetorical argument from the letter's opening to its closing doxology.
Volume 2 examines the scriptural pre-texts in Romans 5:1--8:39. While this portion of Romans contains only one full citation, it is teeming with scriptural allusions and echoes that are critical to understanding Paul's argumentation. Crisler leaves no intertextual stone unturned as he probes the subtext of one of the richest sections in the entire Pauline corpus. From Paul's key transition in Romans 5:1 to his poetic flourish in Romans 8:31-39, and everywhere in between, Crisler explores the interplay between the apostle's endless engagement with Israel's Scriptures and his message to the Christians in Rome. This volume contributes to the commentary's overarching aim which is to provide scholars, interpreters, and students with verse by verse analysis of how Israel's Scriptures impact almost every clause of Paul's most famous letter.
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- Focuses exclusively on the intertextual subtext of Rom 5:1 - 8:39
- Provides an exhaustive reference work for interpreters and scholars interested in the relationship between Israel's Scriptures and Romans
- Informs the overarching aim of the entire commentary to explain how various uses of the OT in Romans cohesively support the letter's rhetorical argument
- Romans 5:1-11
- Romans 5:12-21
- Romans 6:1-23
- Romans 7:1-6
- Romans 7:7-25
- Romans 8:1-11
- Romans 8:12-17
- Romans 8:18-27
- Romans 8:28-30
- Romans 8:31-39
In this fascinating and enlightening book, Crisler considers the Old Testament matrix that lies behind Romans 5–8, chapters that play a formative role in the letter. Insights and connections abound, and we are reminded in a fresh way that Romans wasn’t written in isolation—that there is a canon consciousness informing Paul as he writes. Crisler helps us to see a wider framework, and we can be grateful since we will never mine fully all the riches of what many consider to be Paul’s most important letter.
—Thomas R. Schreiner, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
With Crisler’s work we finally have a commentary that aims to mine the depths of Paul’s use of Scripture in Romans. What makes this study unique is its comprehensive approach to intertextuality that not only explores Paul’s quotations but also his allusions and echoes. Readers will find a virtual feast of pretexts from which to interpret Paul’s most celebrated letter.
—B. J. Oropeza, editor of Perspectives on Paul: Five Views
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