Scholars Reading Romans 1 with Daniel Patte: Critique, Dialogue, and Pedagogy

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A creative collection of essays that introduces, critiques, and dialogues with Daniel Patte’s ground-breaking work Romans: Three Exegetical Interpretations and the History of Reception: Volume 1: Romans 1:1-32 (T&T Clark, 2018). Nine scholars from different cultural and methodological perspectives engage with Patte’s work, critique his methodology and ethic of interpretation, and develop alternative readings. The first part introduces the format of Patte’s book and the three historical interpretations: forensic, covenantal, and realized-apocalyptic. Part two debates methodology and ethical responsibility. The third part focuses on Romans 1:16-18 and 1:26-27 and includes a Confucian Chinese reading and a call for joint biblical and social-science research on the role of Romans in current public policy debates. The final part includes a chapter on pedagogy regarding how Patte’s book can be used in the classroom. The final chapter is a powerful description by Patte himself of the various life experiences that shaped his reading of Romans. This book is a critical and communal conversation with Patte on the history of reception of Romans 1 and an example of the necessity of conversations among diverse interpreters that, as Patte says, "reflect the diversity of the modes of our human experience". Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Figures Introduction Part I Overview Chapter 1 Can One Really Be an Exegete and Claim That All Exegeses Are Equally Legitimate? (Timothy Gombis) Chapter 2 Three Commentaries, One Author: One Author Shaped by History and Culture (Robert L. Brawley) Part II Methodology and Ethical Responsibility Chapter 3 Ethical Responsibility and the Necessity to Choose among a Plurality of Equally Legitimate and Plausible Interpretat Chapter 4 Unending Interpretations: Continuing the Conversation (Tat-siong Benny Liew) Chapter 5 The Collision of Adverse Opinions: A Reflection on Daniel Patte, John Stuart Mill, and the Absolutization of Certain Chapter 6 Can We Live with Romans after Auschwitz? (Gary A. Phillips) Part III Romans 1:16-18 and 1:26-27 Chapter 7 A Chinese Cross-Cultural Reading of “d..a..s... .e..” in Romans 1:17: A Plausible Fourth Exegesis in Conversatio Chapter 8 A Historical Analysis of Daniel Patte’s Strategies and Ethics of Reading with a Focus on Romans 1:16-18 and 1:26-27 Part IV Future Application and Past Influence Chapter 9 Patte’s Romans in the Classroom: Can the Introduction and Chapter 1 Provide Students an Entrée into Postmodern H Chapter 10 The Taproot of My Perception of Romans as Necessarily Multivalent and Contextual (Daniel Patte) References Contributors Index of Authors