{"product_id":"evocations-of-the-calf-romans-1-18-2-11-and-the-substructure-of-psalm-106-105-9783110347357","title":"Evocations of the Calf?: Romans 1:18–2:11 and the Substructure of Psalm 106(105)","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis study proposes that both constitutively and rhetorically (through ironic, inferential, and indirect application), Ps 106(105) serves as the substructure for Paul’s argumentation in Rom 1:18–2:11. Constitutively, Rom 1:18–32 hinges on the triadic interplay between “they (ex)changed” and “God gave them over,” an interplay that creates a sin–retribution sequence with an a-ba-ba-b pattern. Both elements of this pattern derive from Ps 106(105):20, 41a respectively. Rhetorically, Paul ironically applies the psalmic language of idolatrous “(ex)change” and God’s subsequent “giving-over” to Gentiles. Aiding this ironic application is that Paul has cast his argument in the mold of Hellenistic Jewish polemic against Gentile idolatry and immorality, similar to Wis 13–15. In Rom 2:1–4, however, Paul inferentially incorporates a hypocritical Jewish interlocutor into the preceding sequence through the charge of doing the “same,” a charge that recalls Israel’s sins recounted in Ps 106(105). This incorporation then gives way to an indirect application of Ps 106(105):23, by means of an allusion to Deut 9–10 in Rom 2:5–11. Secondarily, this study suggests that Paul’s argumentation exploits an intra-Jewish debate in which evocations of the golden calf figured prominently.","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516495913303,"sku":"9783110347357","price":113.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/evocations-of-the-calf-romans-1-18-2-11-and-the-substructure-of-psalm-106-105-9783110347357","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}