God, grace, and righteousness in Wisdom of Solomon and Paul's letter to the Romans
Subtitle: texts in conversation
By: by Jonathan A. Linebaugh
Series: Supplements to Novum Testamentum -- volume 152; Supplements to Novum Testamentum -- v. 152.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9789004252943; 9789004257412
Subjects: Righteousness; Bible; Grace (Theology); Criticism, interpretation; Exegese; Relation to Romans; Theology; Bibel; Relation to Wisdom of Solomon; Intertextualität; Biblical teaching; Bibeln; Rechtfertigung; Gnade
Description: In 'God, grace, and righteousness in wisdom of Solomon and Paul's Letter to the Romans', Jonathan A. Linebaugh places the wisdom of Solomon and the Letter to the Romans in conversation. Both texts discuss the relationship of Jew and Gentile, the meaning of God's grace and righteousness, and offer readings of Israel's scripture. These shared themes provide talking-points, initiating a dialogue on anthropology, soteriology, and hermeneutics. By listening in on this conversation, Linebaugh demonstrates that while these texts have much in common, the theologies they articulate are ultimately incommensurable because they think from different events - Wisdom from the pre-creational order crafted by Sophia and exemplified in the Exodus; Paul from the incongruous gift of Christ which justifies the ungodly.
Notes: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Durham University, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: A contextual conversation; title: Reading the world rationally from end to beginning: Wisdom 1-6; title: Wisdom's place in Wisdom's theology: 6.1-10.21; title: 'Tradition and the individual talent': history and the divine economy in Wisdom 10.15-19.22; title: A rational reading, in retrospect; title: Announcing the human: Israel against and as the ungodly in Wisdom 13-15 and Romans 1.18-2.11; title: Soteriological semantics: righteousness and grace in Wisdom and Romans; title: With the grain of the universe: history and hermeneutics in Wisdom 10-19 and Romans 9-11; title: Concluding the conversation.