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Paul’s designations of God in Romans ...
Au, Wing Yi. - : The University of Edinburgh, 2021
Abstract: This thesis investigates one aspect of Paul’s God-languages, namely, Paul’s divine designations of θεός in his letter to the Romans. By comparing and contrasting Paul’s designations with his Jewish and pagan contemporaries, this thesis argues that Paul creatively reinterprets and adapts the socio-linguistic resources of divine epithets to justify for the incorporation of Gentiles in God’s salvation. Despite a presumed or neglected “preconceived understanding” of Paul’s God in Pauline scholarship, this study begins with an observation that Paul’s divine designations are neither ordinary nor precedented in Jewish tradition. Inspired by a systemic-functional linguist, Jay Lemke’s model of thematic meaning, divine designations are taken as sociolinguistic phenomenon. The meanings of Paul’s designations are first studied in the respective arguments in Romans. Then, they are compared to the recurrent linguistic patterns of divine epithets found in the OT, early Jewish, and pagan texts. Although exact parallels of ...
Keyword: designations; Gentile inclusion; Letter to the Romans; names; Pauline epistles; Pauline theology; Romans; titles
URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7488/era/1807
https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/38543
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