Exclusionary and inclusionary tendencies: An African relook at Paul’s use of religious texts in Romans 9:26–29

Verbum et Ecclesia

 
 
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Title Exclusionary and inclusionary tendencies: An African relook at Paul’s use of religious texts in Romans 9:26–29
 
Creator Ramantswana, Hulisani
 
Subject Theology; Religion; Cultural Studies; African Studies seed; exclusion; inclusion; Romans; scripture; traditions; African context
Description This article considers Paul’s use of Scripture in Romans 9:26–29 in dealing with exclusionary and inclusionary tendencies in view of the Jews-Gentiles dilemma. In his use of Scripture, Paul uses the concept of ‘seed’ as a link through which he draws various texts in developing his argument as to who is included or excluded within Israel. While it is crucial to observe how Paul utilises Scripture and exegetical traditions in developing his argument, it is argued that the Jews-Gentiles dilemma cannot be solved simply by paying attention to the biblical texts as the voices of the Gentile others also need to be considered.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article is an intersection of Second Temple interpretation and contextual reading of texts, thereby pointing to the importance of readers’ social location in reading of the biblical texts.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor Not applicable
Date 2022-01-20
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Exegetical Analysis; Contextual Reading
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/ve.v43i1.2394
 
Source Verbum et Ecclesia; Vol 43, No 1 (2022); 12 pages 2074-7705 1609-9982
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage Africa Second Temple Period; Early Church —
Rights Copyright (c) 2022 Hulisani Ramantswana https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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