Evocations of the Calf? : : Romans 1:18–2:11 and the Substructure of Psalm 106(105) / / Alec J. Lucas.

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• VerfasserIn: Lucas, Alec J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft , 201
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Preface --; Contents --; List of Tables --; List of Abbreviations --; Chapter 1: Introduction --; Chapter 2: Psalm 106(105) --; Chapter 3: Romans 1:18–2:11 --; Chapter 4: Sketching a Larger Context --; Chapter 5: Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index of Authors --; Index of Subjects --; Index of Ancient Sources
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110348033; 9783110762518; 9783110700985; 9783110369526; 9783110370409
• ISSN: 0171-6441
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110348033
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• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alec J. Lucas.

This 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.