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These papers of the 62nd Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense (July 16-18, 2013) illustrate that the Apostle Paul is an excellent example for the cultural exchange so typical of the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire during the early imperial age. He was a Jew from Tarsus and regarded himself, according to his own words, as Hebrew descended from Hebrews, and as Pharisee according to the way of interpreting the Law. However, he wrote his letters in Greek, showing acquaintance not only with the Greek translations of the Law and the Prophets, but also with contemporary Greek philosophical concepts, rhetorical style and e.g. the tradition of Euripides' tragedies. He lived and worked in several Roman colonies and absorbed Romanized concepts, metaphors and a vision of reaching from the eastern frontier of the Empire to Spain in the West. Influenced by different intellectual worlds, Paul stood at the crossroads of cultural interaction.

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In this volume the proceedings of the 24th Colloqium Oecumenicum Paulinum, which gathered from September 12-17 2016 in the Abbazia di San Paolo fuori le mura to study the first five chapters of Paul’s Letter to the Romans, are published. In eight essays leading Pauline scholars from Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox tradition discuss all sections of the text of Romans 1,1-5,11 in great detail. Reconstructing Paul’s arguments on human sin, God’s gift of redemption and justification for those who trust in his power to save them through the death and resurrection of Christ, the scholars present the current state of research on the first part of Paul’s Letter to the Romans.

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