Pauls Viewpoint On God, Israel, And The Gentiles In Romans 911 eBook

Over the years Romans 911 has been investigated from a variety of approaches, with one of the most prominent being an intertextual reading. However, most discussions of intertextual studies on this section of Romans fail to adequately address Pauls discourse patterns and that of his Jewish contemporaries with regard to God, Israel, and the Gentiles.Adapting Lemkes linguistic intertextual thematic theory, this study uses a methodological control to analyze the discourse patterns in Romans 911. Through this analysis the author demonstrates the divergence of Pauls viewpoints on several typical Jewish issues, which suggests that his discontinuities from his Jewish contemporaries are obvious and sometimes radical. It is apparent that Romans 911 not only provides a self-presentation of Paul as a Mosaic prophet figure, but overall it appears as a prophetic discourse, reinforcing the notion that Pauls message comes from divine authority.