Dr. Craig Keener, Romans, Lecture 1, Introduction

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Dr. Craig Keener on Romans
This is the first of 18 lectures Dr. Craig Keener of Asbury Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky has done on the book of Romans.
Be sure to check out his commentary: Romans: A New Covenant Commentary published by Wipf and Stock. The audio, full text in English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and others are freely available at https://biblicalelearning.org.


Timed Outline:
00:00 Genre: Letters vs. Epistles
4:40 Commitment to the Project
6:10 How to read Letters: rhetorical criticism
7:00 Parts of Letters, Greeting: blessing
11:40 Body of Letters
13:10 Hermeneutic: how to understand Letters
17:00 Moral issues versus cultural issues
20:15 Understand the cultural options available to the writer – slavery
21:30 Bible sometimes speaks with a unanimous voice against some elements of culture
22:00 Rhetoric pervasive in antiquity
24:45 Rhetoric vs. letters
26:20 Education in Tarsus
31:40 Studying with Gamaliel
33:10 Paul's letter as evidence
34:25 Some portraits of Paul in the past century of scholarship
36:30 Palestinian Jew (Sanders)
37:50 Cosmopolitan Greco-Roman background
39:35 Paul and Torah
42:25 Paul, Judaism and Rhetoric
53:30 The Setting: Rome
56:10 Rome
57:55 Setting: Rome's Jewish community
1:00:55 Roman xenophobia
1:02:05 Roman history and the church there

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