Introducing Romans

Paul's Letter to the Romans has proven to be a particular challenge for commentators, with its many highly significant interpretive issues often leading to tortuous convolutions and even -dead ends- in their understanding of the letter.

Here, Richard N. Longenecker takes a comprehensive look at the complex backdrop of Paul's letter and carefully unpacks a number of critical issues, including:

* Authorship, integrity, occasion, date, addressees, and purpose

* Important recent interpretive approaches

* Greco-Roman oral, rhetorical, and epistolary conventions

* Jewish and Jewish Christian thematic and rhetorical features

* The establishing of the letter's Greek text

* The letter's main focus, structure, and argument