Dr. Creasy's Suggested Reading for Romans
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Divine Impartiality: Paul and a Theological Axiom
Jouette M. Bassler
The Epistle to the Romans
Karl Barth (trans. Edwyn C. Hoskyns)
The Justification of the Gentiles: Paul’s Letters to the Galatians and Romans
Hendrikus Boers
A Preface to Romans: Notes on the Epistle in Its Literary and Cultural Setting
Christopher Bryan
Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse
Averil Cameron
Bisexuality in the Ancient World
Eva Cantarella (trans. Cormac O Cuilleanain)
Romans: A Shorter Commentary
C. E. B. Cranfield
Purpose and Cause in Pauline Exegesis: Romans 1:16-4:25 and a New Approach to the Letters
Wendy Dabourne
Romans 1-8 (Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 38A)
James D. G. Dunn
Romans 9-16 (Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 38B)
James D. G. Dunn
Rhetoric of Romans: Argumentative Constraint and Strategy and Paul’s Dialogue with Judaism
Neil Elliott
Romans and the Apologetic Tradition: The Purpose, Genre and Audience of Paul’s Letter
Anthony J. Guerra and John Court
Paul Beyond the Judaism / Hellenism Divide
Troels Engberg-Pedersen
The Theology of Paul’s Letter to the Romans
Klaus Haacker
Reading Romans: a Literary and Theological Commentary
Luke T. Johnson
Art of Persuasion in Greece
George A. Kennedy
Paul’s “Spirit of Adoption” in Its Roman Imperial Context
Robert Brian Lewis
Narrative Dynamics in Paul: A Critical Assessment
Bruce W. Longenecker (ed.)
Sin, Redemption and Sacrifice: A Biblical and Patristic Study
Stanislas Lyonnet and Leopold Sabourin
Slavery as Salvation: the Metaphor of Slavery in Pauline Christianity
Dale B. Martin
Wrestling with Rationality in Paul: Romans 1-8 in a New Perspective
John D. Moores
Introductory Thanksgivings in the Letters of Paul
Peter T. O’Brien
The Diatribe and Paul’s Letter to the Romans
Stanley K. Stowers
Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Stanley K. Stowers
A Rereading of Romans: Justice, Jews and Gentiles
Stanley K. Stowers
Paul and the Romans: The Life and Letters of Paul
Denise L. Stringer
Paul’s Rhetoric in Its Contexts: The Argument of Romans
Thomas H. Tobin
Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith
Francis Watson
Paul’s Letter to the Romans: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary
Ben Witherington III with Darlene Hyatt
Paul: In Fresh Perspective
N. T. Wright
Paul, Judaism, and Judgment According to Deeds
Kent L. Yinger