Story, text, and technique : reading Scripture in Paul -- Paul's interpretation of Scripture : story -- Paul's interpretation of Scripture : texts -- Paul's interpretation of Scripture : technique -- The Abrahamic Mythomoteur in early Judaism and in the letters of Paul -- Abrahamic identity in postexilic texts -- The reconfiguration of Abrahamic identity in the letters of Paul -- Ethnic difference and epistolary exigency : rethinking the reason for Romans -- The composition of Roman Christianity -- The prehistory of Romans and the accused apostle -- Apologetic traces in Romans -- Gentile addressees and Jewish auditors -- Conclusions : mercenary motives or exegetical breakthrough? -- Discriminatory election and logical reversals in Romans 9:6-13 -- Covenantal fidelity or cosmic farce? Romans 9:6a in context -- Israel and not Israel : Romans 9:6b in context -- Structure and argument in Romans 9:7-13 -- Flesh does not mean seed : Romans 9:7-9 -- Obedience does not mean election : Romans 9:10-13 -- Establishing and intertextual matrix : Moses and the prophets in Romans 9 -- Lexical connections discovered by Paul -- Lexical connections forged by Paul -- Thematic connections : election, exclusion, and reversals in the Scriptures of Israel -- Hosea's excluded children : the inversion of election in Romans 9:25-26 -- Power and providence in Romans 9:14-23 and 9:24 -- Transformed children : Abraham's Gentile descendants in Hosea -- Promised land and restoration eschatology in Paul -- Reading Isaiah's remnant : the Genesis of a soteriological transformation in Romans 9:27-29 -- A certain and salvific word -- From residual seed to all Israel -- A certain salvation -- but not for all : reversing election in Romans 9 -- Beyond Romans 9 : election and its reversal in Romans -- God's word to "Israel" has not failed -- nor has his word to Israel -- Trading places with Esau -- The priority of Israel and the equality of Gentiles.
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