Paul's Letter to the Romans: A Commentary

In this book Peter Stuhlmacher stresses the Old Testament and postbiblical Jewish traditions as the primary backdrop to Pauls thought as these traditions were known by Paul himself or mediated to him through Jesus and the early church. The themes of the righteousness of God and the corresponding justification of both Jews and Gentiles are viewed as the center of Romans. Finally Stuhlmacher seeks to place the apostles theology within its historical context. He overcomes the false dichotomy that has often characterized the study of Romans mediating between the view that it is a general theological treatise that functions as Pauls last testament to his Christian faith on the one hand and the view that it is one particular and occasion-bound expression of Pauls thinking.