| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 264 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Biblical interpretation series ; v. 100
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Biblical interpretation series ; v. 100.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-262) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The ancestor in Greco-Roman culture: the case of Aeneas -- Abraham in Hellenistic-Jewish context -- The Shona ancestral cosmology -- Ancestry and descendancy in Romans 4. |
| Summary |
New Testament commentaries and exegetes have not paid sufficient attention to the context in which Paul's Epistel to the Romans was crafted. This book written from an African perspective offers a fresh interpretation on a contextualizing reading of Romans and its theology. The argument of the book is that Paul's construcntion of Abraham as a Spiritual ancestor of "all" faith people was based on his encounter with the Roman Ideology based on Aeneas as the founder of Rome. A juxtaposition of these two canonical ancestors needs to be considered in our 21st multi - ethnic Christian world. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bible. Romans, IV -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Abraham (Biblical patriarch)
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Abraham (Biblical patriarch) |
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Bible. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kamudzandu, Israel. Abraham as spiritual ancestor. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004181649 (DLC) 2009053518 (OCoLC)496282316 |
| ISBN |
9789004183339 (electronic book) |
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9004183337 (electronic book) |
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9789004181649 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004181644 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612786648 |
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