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Renaming Abraham's Children Election, Ethnicity, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Romans 9

:	Robert B. Foster
:	Renaming Abraham's Children Election, Ethnicity, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Romans 9
:	Mohr Siebeck
:	9783161544842
:	Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe
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:	Christentum
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In this study, Robert B. Foster explores the intersection between the interpretation of Scripture and the construction of communal identities. He argues that in Rom 9, Paul applies prophetic texts from Malachi, Hosea, and Isaiah to the story of Abraham's children in Genesis. These interpretive maneuvers enable Paul to extrapolate from the patriarchal narratives a specific construal of election: it is the ironic privilege of being simultaneously God's chosen and rejected people. This understanding of election he in turn applies to Gentile Christ-followers, the remnant, and all Israel in order to build for them an all-encompassing yet differentiated Abrahamic identity for the messianic age.

Born 1973; received his PhD from Marquette University (2011); has taught at Marquette University, Albion College, and Madonna University; currently an associate book review editor for Reviews of the Enoch Seminar.

	Cover	1
	Preface	6
	Table of Contents	10
	List of Abbreviations	16
	A Note on Translations	19
	Introduction	20
	Chapter 1: Story, Text, and Technique: Reading Scripture in Paul	24
	1.1. Paul’s Interpretation of Scripture: Story	24
	1.1.1. Getting Behind the Text	25
	1.1.2. Locating a Pre-Epistolary Story	27
	1.1.3. Legitimating a Hypothesis	39
	1.1.4. Circumventing the Audience	41
	1.2. Paul’s Interpretation of Scripture: Texts	44
	1.2.1. Textual Diversity in Second Temple Judaism	45
	1.2.2. Determining Paul’s Quotations	47
	1.2.3. Excursus: Paul and the Hebrew Scriptures	51
	1.3. Paul’s Interpretation of Scripture: Technique	52
	1.3.1. Torah and the Prophets	53
	1.3.2. Analogy: Gezera Shawa and Heqesh	55
	1.3.3. Atomizing Exegesis	59
	1.4. Conclusions	60
	Chapter 2: The Abrahamic Mythomoteur in Early Judaism and in the Letters of Paul	62
	2.1. Abrahamic Identity in Postexilic Texts	62
	2.2. The Reconfiguration of Abrahamic Identity in the Letters of Paul	69
	2.2.1. Abraham, Isaac, and Israel in Galatians	69
	2.2.1.1. Abraham and the Gentiles in Galatia	71
	2.2.1.2. Locating Gentiles in Genesis	72
	2.2.1.3. Participation in Abraham’s Single Seed	73
	2.2.1.4. Overcoming Circumcision with the Prophets	75
	2.2.1.5. Paul, Judaism, and the “Israel of God”	79
	2.2.1.6. Summary	81
	2.2.2. Former Gentiles with Circumcised Hearts	83
	2.2.2.1. Former Gentiles in 1 Corinthians	84
	2.2.2.2. Circumcised Hearts in Philippians and Romans	92
	2.2.2.3. Summary	94
	2.2.3. Romans 4 and the Two Branches of Abraham’s Family Tree	94
	2.2.3.1. Justification, Circumcision, and Abraham’s Children in Romans 4:9–12	96
	2.2.3.2. Torah, Inheritance, and Abraham’s Children in Romans 4:13–17	98
	2.3. Conclusions	101
	Chapter 3: Ethnic Difference and Epistolary Exigency: Rethinking the Reason for Romans	103
	3.1. The Composition of Roman Christianity	104
	3.2. The Prehistory of Romans and the Accused Apostle	114
	3.3. Apologetic Traces in Romans	119
	3.4. Gentile Addressees and Jewish Auditors	123
	3.5. Conclusions: Mercenary Motives or Exegetical Breakthrough?	130
	Chapter 4: Discriminatory Election and Logical Reversals in Romans 9:6–13	132
	4.1. Covenantal Fidelity or Cosmic Farce? Romans 9:6a in Context	133
	4.2. Israel and Not Israel: Romans 9:6b in Context	137
	4.3. Structure and Argument in Romans 9:7–13	141
	4.4. Flesh Does Not Mean Seed: Romans 9:7–9	144
	4.4.1. Scriptural Quotation in Romans 9:7–9	144
	4.4.2. Sp..µa and S... in Romans 9:7–9	147
	4.4.3. Ishmael’s Exclusion: Circumcision and Covenant in Romans 9:7–9	149
	4.4.4. Ishmael’s Exclusion: Circumcision and Covenant Behind Romans 9:7–9	151
	4.5. Obedience Does Not Mean Election: Romans 9:10–13	155
	4.5.1. Scriptural Quotation in Romans 9:10–13	155
	4.5.2. Works and Torah in Romans 9:10–13	158
	4.5.3. Patriarchs, Prophets, and the “Dynamics of Diselection” in Romans 9:10–13	161
	4.5.3.1. Election and Its Opposite in Romans 9:10–13	161
	4.5.3.2. Divine Love and Divine Hate in Romans 9:13	164
	4.6. Conclusions	167
	Chapter 5: Establishing and Intertextual Matrix: Moses and the Prophets in Romans 9	170
	5.1. Lexical Connections Discovered by Paul	170
	5.1.1. “You Will Be Called”	171
	5.1.2. “Seed”	172
	5.1.3. “As Numerous as the Sands of the Sea”	172
	5.1.4. Inheriting the Land	173
	5.1.5. The Remnant	174
	5.1.6. Sodom and Gomorrah	176
	5.1.7. Edom’s Inheritance	177
	5.1.8. Summary	178
	5.2. Lexical Connections Forged by Paul	178
	5.2.1. Hosea 2:25 (Eng.: 2:23) in Romans 9:25	180
	5.2.2. Isaiah 10:22–23 in Romans 9:27–28	184
	5.3. Thematic Connections: Election, Exclusion, and Reversals in the Scriptures of Israel	189
	5.3.1. The Irony of Election: Favored Sons in Genesis	189
	5.3.2. Exiled and Restored Children: Narrative Patterns in Hosea	192
	5.3.3. Pruning the Vine: Restricting Election in Isaiah	193
	5.3.3.1. The Returning Remnant in Isaiah 10:20–23	193
	5.3.3.2. The Survivors of Israel in Isaiah 1:9	199
	5.3.4. Summary	201
	5.4. Conclusions	202
	Chapter 6: Hosea’s Excluded Children: The Inversion of Election in Romans