Abraham as spiritual ancestor : a postcolonial Zimbabwean reading of Romans 4 /

Abraham as spiritual ancestor : a postcolonial Zimbabwean reading of Romans 4 /

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 b...

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Main Author: Kamudzandu, Israel.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Series: Biblical Interpretation Series 100.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2010, ISBN: 9789004222731.

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Abraham > (Biblical patriarch)
Bible. > N.T. > Romans IV > Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Call Number: BS2665.52 .K36 2010

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505 0 0 |t Preliminary Material /  |r I. Kamudzandu --   |t Introduction /  |r I. Kamudzandu --   |t Chapter One. The Ancestor In Greco-Roman Culture: The Case Of Aeneas /  |r I. Kamudzandu --   |t Chapter Two. Abraham In Hellenistic-Jewish Context /  |r I. Kamudzandu --   |t Chapter Three. The Shona Ancestral Cosmology /  |r I. Kamudzandu --   |t Chapter Four. Ancestry And Descendancy In Romans 4 /  |r I. Kamudzandu --   |t Conclusion /  |r I. Kamudzandu --   |t Bibliography /  |r I. Kamudzandu --   |t Index Of Ancient Documents /  |r I. Kamudzandu --   |t Subject Index /  |r I. Kamudzandu. 
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520 |a 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. Paul's epitsle is not about how God saves the individual human being; rather the debate between Paul and the Jewish - Christian interlocutor is about how families of people and nations establish a kinship with God and one another. The concern with ancestors is apaque to Western Biblical readers and Christians. This is book helps both Westerners and Africans to value ethnic diversity. 
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