An Intertextual Commentary on Romans, Volume 4

An Intertextual Commentary on Romans is an exhaustive treatment of the hundreds of Old Testament citations, allusions, and echoes embedded in Paul’s most famous epistle. As many scholars have acknowledged, to understand Paul’s engagement with Israel’s Scriptures is to understand Romans. Despite this acknowledgment, there is a dearth of reference works in which the primary focus is how the Old Testament impacts Paul’s argument from Romans 1:1 to 16:27. This four-volume commentary aims to provide just such a reference. The interplay between Romans and its vast sea of Old Testament pre-texts produces unstated points of resonance that illuminate Paul’s rhetorical argument from the letter’s opening to its closing doxology.



Volume 4 examines the scriptural pre-texts in Romans 12:1—16:27. Crisler offers a much-needed analysis of how Paul engages Israel’s Scriptures in an often-neglected section of Romans. This portion of Paul’s most famous letter contains some of the thickest intertextual features in the entire letter. Crisler explores how Paul once again takes up Israel’s Scriptures for paraenetic purposes that complement his overarching purpose of helping Christians in ancient Rome rightly understand the relationship between the revelation of God’s righteousness in the gospel, present and eschatological wrath, and believers’ afflictions.