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Romans 12-15, Social Identity, and the Purpose of Romans

其他書名	An Association-epistolary Approach
出版	McGill University Libraries, 2018
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=EXDpuQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"The question of the purpose of Romans is a longstanding scholarly problem. Usually scholars try to clarify the purpose of the letter by guessing at Paul's authorial intentions, and this approach has not led to any real consensus. My study instead locates the purpose of Romans in its function as a tool of community identity definition. My comparative analysis reviews the ways in which the social function of community identity definition is performed by Greco-Roman and Jewish association letters, and then by Romans. The community advice found in Rom 12-15 shows how in the letter to the Romans, an inscribed addressee community is invited to see and comport itself as a "proper" ancient association community. It is defined as properly unified and orderly. It is defined as properly accomodating to - and properly distinct from - cultures "outside." It is defined as properly linked to a global association network with proper leadership (i.e., the inscribed Paul of the letter and his network). Paul's letter to the Romans is in many ways a baffling and extraordinary document. In terms of its function of defining community identity, though, it is an understandable ancient association letter, and its purpose as such is quite clear."--