Re: 1 Clement & the Gospel of Matthew?
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 7:26 am
Hi Neil, this is from page 222 of The First New Testament by Jason D. BeDuhnneilgodfrey wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 12:54 amWho disputes this section of Romans?Jax wrote: ↑Sun Oct 13, 2019 9:24 pmIs Romans 9-11 actually Paul though?Ben C. Smith wrote: ↑Sun Oct 13, 2019 3:34 pmRomans 10.7 mentions the abyss as the abode of the dead.davidmartin wrote: ↑Sun Oct 13, 2019 3:26 pm If you want a concrete example consider 'hell'
where does Paul ever mention it as a concept, or name it by any names Sheol, Gehenna, outer darkness, tartaros…
LaneThe version of Romans in the Apostolikon differed from even the more widely-circulating fourteen-chapter version, however, since it had a shortened text in other sections of the letter as well. It apparently lacked much, if not all, of chapter 9, and the bulk of chapter 11. Many commentators have seen chapters 9-11 of Romans as a separate essay, not well-integrated with the rest of the letter, regardless of whether it was original to the letter or a later addition. C. H. Dodd, for example, states that these chapters "form a unity in themselves. They can be read and understood independently, and equally without them the epistle could be read through without any sense of a gap in the sequence of thought." Reaching the end of chapter 8, Paul has prepared his readers for an exposition of Christian ethics, pointing forward to it multiple times, and so the "immediate sequel" to 8:31-39 is 12:1ff., not chapters 9-11. Dodd goes on to surmise that Paul may have composed the latter piece separately, as a sermon, and incorporated it at the time he composed the letter. "The sermon (if we may call it so) starts abruptly, with no connection with what has preceded," even if Dodd refuses to consider it "a mere interpolation." Francois Refoule has taken the next step of considering the possibility that it is an interpolation, either an authentic composition of Paul added secondarily to the letter, or a non-Pauline intrusion.