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Jason A. Myers reconsiders the meaning and context of the phrase "the obedience of faith" in Rom 1:5 and how it contributes to the theme of obedience in Romans. In contrast to previous studies that have nearly exclusively focused on the obedience language in light of the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple literature, Myers instead investigates how this language functioned within the Greco-Roman world, particularly in the discourse of the Roman Emp...

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Attention to Paul's use of obedience language in Romans (Rom 1:5ff) has been limited by focusing primarily on the Hebrew scriptures and the Jewish literature of the Second Temple period. A lacuna exists in understanding Paul's obedience language from the particular viewpoint of the Gentiles in the Roman audience. Therefore this monograph engages in an extensive study of how obedience language functions in the Greco-Roman world by surveying ove...