This book is a sustained investigation of the interpretation of righteousness (??????????) in Romans as it undergoes personification within a metaphoric and narratorial setting. The argument has, as its starting point, the assertion that previous treatments of righteousness in Romans, and particularly within the New Perspective, have failed adequately to take account of the poetic, connotative, and metaphoric nature of Paul's language. As a way forward, David J. Southall assesses recent literary theorists and endorses their conclusions that metaphor, narrative and personification are tropes of semantic innovation which are productive of new information. In nuce, the thesis of the entire project is that when personified Dikaiosu/nh occurs within pericopes which display clear components of metaphor and narrative, then the character-invention 'Righteousness' acts out the role which in less metaphoric and narratorially construed passages would be played by Christ himself. The author mainly seeks to demonstrate this via exegetical treatments of Romans 6:15-23 and 9:30-10:21 (texts in which biblical scholarship has recognised the personification of righteousness) showing that both of these pericopes contain strong metaphoric and narratorial elements, and concluding that personified ??????????? operates within these matrices and is functionally equivalent to Christ himself. The investigation concludes with an examination of righteousness elsewhere in the Pauline corpus.

Born 1964; 2007 PhD; Associate Research Fellow at Spurgeon's College in South Norwood, London and Baptist Minister accredited by the Baptist Union of Great Britain.

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Born 1964; 2007 PhD; Associate Research Fellow at Spurgeon's College in South Norwood, London and Baptist Minister accredited by the Baptist Union of Great Britain.

Zusammenfassung
Warum personifiziert der Apostel Paulus Gerechtigkeit und Sünde in Römer 6 und 9? Benutzt er dieses sprachliche Mittel auch an anderen Stellen des Briefes? David J. Southall untersucht paulinische Personifikationen und zeigt, daß der Apostel Trope verwendet, um Charaktere zu erfinden. So stellt beispielsweise in Römer 6 'Gerechtigkeit' den Sklavenhalter dar und in Römer 9,30-33 eine Person, die an einem Wettlauf teilnimmt. Der Autor kommt zu dem Schluß, daß Paulus besonders durch die personifizierte 'Gerechtigkeit Gottes' spricht, wenn er von Christus in Textstellen redet, die narrativ und voller Metaphern sind.