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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788829603321

Autore

Lucas Alec J. <1975->

Titolo

Evocations of the calf? : Romans 1:18-2:11 and the substructure of Psalm 106 (105) / / Alec J. Lucas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-034803-9

3-11-038464-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Collana

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft, , 0171-6441 ; ; Volume 201

Classificazione

BC 7550

Disciplina

227.106

Soggetti

Golden calf (Bible)

Idolatry - Biblical teaching

Exegese

Intertextualität

RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Psalm 106(105) -- Chapter 3: Romans 1:18-2:11 -- Chapter 4: Sketching a Larger Context -- Chapter 5: Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Ancient Sources

Sommario/riassunto

This study proposes that both constitutively and rhetorically (through ironic, inferential, and indirect application), Ps 106(105) serves as the substructure for Paul's argumentation in Rom 1:18-2:11. Constitutively, Rom 1:18-32 hinges on the triadic interplay between "they (ex)changed" and "God gave them over," an interplay that creates a sin-retribution sequence with an a-ba-ba-b pattern. Both elements of this pattern derive from Ps 106(105):20, 41a respectively. Rhetorically, Paul ironically applies the psalmic language of idolatrous "(ex)change" and God's subsequent "giving-over" to Gentiles. Aiding this ironic application is that Paul has cast his argument in the mold of Hellenistic Jewish polemic against Gentile idolatry and immorality,



similar to Wis 13-15. In Rom 2:1-4, however, Paul inferentially incorporates a hypocritical Jewish interlocutor into the preceding sequence through the charge of doing the "same," a charge that recalls Israel's sins recounted in Ps 106(105). This incorporation then gives way to an indirect application of Ps 106(105):23, by means of an allusion to Deut 9-10 in Rom 2:5-11. Secondarily, this study suggests that Paul's argumentation exploits an intra-Jewish debate in which evocations of the golden calf figured prominently.