Romans: Text, Readers, and the History of Interpretation

A wide-ranging study of the interpretation of Paul's letter to the Romans throughout history, from Origen to Karl Barth.

In anticipation of his Illuminations commentary on Paul's letter to the Romans, Stephen Westerholm offers this extensive survey of the reception history of Romans. After two initial chapters discussing the letter's textual history and its first readers in Rome (a discussion carried out in dialogue with the Paul-within-Judaism stream of scholarship), Westerholm provides a ...