The Worries of Biblical Scholars Engaging Romans 8-16

Underlying much of this is the concern to establish academic credibility, this isn't devotional. Lexical analysis led with accounts of syntactical possibilities concerns relating to Perrecopies and ancient rhetorical functions will all be foregrounded. To do otherwise would be to abdicate the task of commentary writing. And what I'm going to do in the following is go through Bart's commentary chapters 8-16 pulling on threads that will cause biblical scholars to worry,. Sometimes those threads will lead me to Paul on larger themes across the entire commentary.