Beverly Gaventa and Paul's Letter to the Romans

Little by little Beverly Gaventa is working her way through her commentary on Paul's letter to the Romans. In 2016 she published a brief book When in Romans (Baker), picking up broad themes of her reading. From 2004 she has been publishing articles exploring sections, words, and themes running through the letter. Below is an attempt to see how her reading of the letter is looking chapter by chapter. Many, if not all, of the articles, are concerned not just with one chapter, but with the whole letter.

1

'Power and Kenosis in Paul’s Letter to the Romans' in Kenosis: The Self-Emptying of Christ in Scripture and Theology edited by Keith Johnson and Paul Nimmo (Eerdmans, 2022)

'"To Preach the Gospel": Romans 1.15 and the Purpose of Romans' in The Letter to the Romans edited by Udo Schnelle (Peeters, 2009), 179-95

"The Mission of God in Paul's Letter to the Romans." Paul as Missionary: Identity, Activity, Theology, and Practice edited by Trevor Burke and Brian S. Rosner (T & T Clark, 2011), 65-75

'Places of Power in Paul's Letter to the Romans', Interpretation 76.4 (October 2022)

'"God Handed Them Over": Reading Romans 1:18-32 Apocalyptically', Australian Biblical Review 53 (2005), 42-53

3

'From Toxic Speech to the Redemption of Doxology in Paul's Letter to the Romans' in The Word Leaps the Gap: Essays on Scripture and Theology in Honor of Richard B. Hays edited by J. Ross Wagner et al (Eerdmans, 2008)

5-8

'The Cosmic Power of Sin in Paul's Letter to the Romans: Towards a Widescreen Edition', Interpretation (July 2004)

'The Rhetoric of Violence and the God of Peace in Paul's Letter to the Romans." Paul, John, and Apocalyptic Eschatology: Studies in Honour of Martinus C. de Boer edited by Jans Krans et al (Brill, 2014).

7

'The Shape of the “I”: The Psalter, the Gospel, and the Speaker in Romans 7' in Apocalyptic Paul: Cosmos and Anthrops in Romans 5-8 edited by Beverly Gaventa (Baylor, 2013) 

8

'Interpreting the Death of Jesus Apocalyptically: Reconsidering Romans 8.32' in Jesus and Paul Reconnected edited by Todd D. Still (Eerdmans, 2007)

"‘Neither Height nor Depth': Cosmos and Soteriology in Paul's Letter to the Romans." Apocalyptic and the Future of Theology: With and Beyond J. Louis Martyn edited by Joshua B. Davis and Douglas Harink (Cascade Books, 2012), 183-99

'The Powers and Paul’s Letter to the Romans' in Life Amid the Principalities edited by Michael Root and James J. Buckley (Wipf and Stock, 2016), 24-37.

9-11

 'Thinking from Christ to Israel: Romans 9-11 in Apocalyptic Perspective' in Paul and the Apocalyptic Imagination edited by John Byron and Joel N. Lohr (Fortress, 2016).

'On the Calling-into-Being of Israel: Romans 9.6-26' in J. Ross Wagner (ed.), Between Gospel and Election (Mohr Siebeck, 2010)

'Questions about Nomos: Answers about Christos: Romans 10:4 in Context.' Torah Ethics and Early Christian Identity edited by Susan J. Wendel and David M. Miller (Eerdmans, 2016).

'The God Who Will Not Be Taken For Granted: Reflections on Paul's Letter to the Romans' in The Ending of Mark and the Ends of God: Essays in Memory of Donald Harrisville Juel edited by Beverley Gaventa and Patrick Miller (Westminster John Knox, 2005)

12

'Gendered Bodies and the Body of Christ' in Practicing with Paul: Reflections on Paul and the Practices of Ministry in Honor of Susan G. Eastman edited by Presian R. Burroughs (Cascade, 2018)

'“That Grace Should Come into Its Own”: Romans 12:1–8 in and with Karl Barth’s Römerbrief' in The New Perspective on Grace: Paul and the Gospel after Paul and the Gift edited by Edward Adams et al (Eerdmans, 2023)

13

“Reading Romans 13 with Simone Weil: Toward a More Generous Hermeneutic.” Journal of Biblical Literature 136 (2017) 7-22.

14-15

'Reading for the Subject: The Paradox of Power in Romans 14.1-15.6', Journal of Theological Interpretation 5.1 (2011)

“The ‘Glory of God’ in Paul’s Letter to the Romans.” Interpretation and the Claims of the Text: Resourcing New Testament Theology edited by Jason A. Whitlark, Bruce W. Longenecker, Lidija Novakovic, and Mikeal C. Parsons (Baylor, 2014), 29-40.

16

 "Paul and the Roman Believers." The Blackwell Companion to Paul edited by Stephen Westerholm (Blackwell, 2011), 93-107.

 

See also:

'Freedom in Apocalyptic Perspective:  A Reflection on Paul's Letter to the Romans' in Quests for Freedom: Biblical, Historical, Contemporary edited by Michael Welker (Cascade, 2019 [2015])

'We, They, All in Paul's Letter to the Romans', Word and the World 39.3 (2019)