Welcome to the Bible Reexamined Website

• NEW FEATURE--The website has a new Romans bibliography database for the discovery of topics to study in the letter to the Romans. See the link is shown below. Some useful reports should also be added in the future to directly list articles and books addressing topics pertaining to individual topics sorted by chapters. Even the simple titles of books and articles gives a clue to the questions raised about Romans.
• Project Goals In short the goal is to advance the understanding of Romans and promulgate the knowledge to the general community of believers.
• I would like to thank Biola University for its informal help in providing resources for research. There is no review or approval by Biola for the material shared here.
• There are other scholars and professors that have assisted me at various times. I shall give more public acknowledgement as I am permitted.

Romans Purpose and Overview

• Romans Quick Overview to show the topics and flow of Romans.(Nov 2007) *Recommended
• Romans Overview (pdf) (updated Sep 2007) Primarily shows the effect of Paul's accusation of the Romans' judgmental attitude.
• Outline of Romans Problems (pdf) [Oct 2008] New Romans Outline showing the way Paul addressed problems among Romans.
• Romans Outline (pdf) [updated Aug. 16, 2009] New Romans High Detailed Outline showing the flow based on realization of the anti-Jewish problems about which Paul was writing. Also has general observations about outlines.
• Romans Outline-MH (pdf) [updated June 7, 2009] New Romans Medium High Detail Outline.
• Romans Outline-MD (pdf) [updated June 7, 2009] New Romans Medium Detail Outline. (Lowest amount of Detail preferred.)
• Romans Outline--Short (pdf) [updated June 2008] Short Version of Outline. Earlier version outline, for comparison
• Early Believers in Rome (pdf) [May 2009] An attempt to reconstruct the history of the Roman Church before Paul's letter.
• Paul's Argument to the Romans (pdf) Shows details of Paul's argumentative techniques.
• Themes and Transitions Diagrams (pdf) [Explanatory Notes] Tabular display of doctrines and topics used as tools to help the Romans in their problems
• Romans: Paul's Motivation (pdf) --Analysis of Chapters 9 to 11
• More Arguments for Paul's Argument (pdf) Deeper examination of Paul's Argument in Romans
• Some probing questions to ask about your understanding of Romans. First 3 chapters for now. (Nov 2007)
• Romans Transitions (pdf) Older ideas for what became the Quick Overview. More as raw data.

Chapter Highlights and Topics

• Interesting Quotes
• Romans 4 Faith(pdf) -- Aug 2008
• Romans 5 Paraphrase-- Aug 2008
• Olive Tree Analogy (pdf) -- Jan 2009
• RomansWrath (pdf) An investigation into the Wrath of God as introduced through Romans.
• Different Names, Different Purposes (pdf) An investigation into the different names of persons and places mentioned in New Testament writings.

Romans Wiki

• Romans Wiki -- Contribute ideas and references on Romans. *Recommended
• Romans Wiki Snapshot  (pdf)
• Wiki intro to Romans
• Romans Wiki info on purposes of Romans *Recommended
• Wiki Purpose of Romans 12
• Romans 12 Works of Service

Discussion related to the above articles

• Theology Web discussion
• Comments Input Page -- Write greetings and ideas.
• View Comments Page

Additional resources:

Bibliography

• Romans Bibliography (Added Nov 19,2009) An extensive bibliography of Roman topics in scholarship is now available. View the full list of articles, books and resources or view by author.
• UniGreek --Free tool to type Greek letters directly or in betacode
• Google Bible Topics Bibliogaphy
• Best Commentaries -- Website with an analysis of commentary quality based on other people's reviews. The site also indicates bibles used for scholarship and those for personal study.
• Bible.org series on Romans -- audio(mp3) files of teaching by Kenneth Boa.
• biblicalstudies.org.uk has a useful list of commentaries and articles on Romans
• bible-researcher.com has links to Roman commentaries mainly from the 1800s. There are commentary links also for other books of the bible

Journal Notes

• Journal Notes -- My findings for help on getting published (theoretical only). There also are links to sites that provides journal abbreviations and lists of journals.

Tools

• UniGreek --Free tool to type Greek letters directly or in betacode
• SBL research tools webpage
• CiteSBLHSBuild bibliographies and print SBLHS style.
• Nota Bene -- Makes and sells tools for Academic Reaarch and writing.

Websites

• TheGospelOfGod -- focuses on the gospel message as presented in Romans. Presents the gospel message as the focus of Paul's effort in writing to the Romans.
• Bible.org Link to D. Wallace article "Romans: Introduction, Argument, and Outline", but also has various other articles on Romans with different perspectives of Paul's purpose.
• biblical performance criticism -- this website may have some info that may be helpful in exploring the original reading of the letter to the Romans.
• Journal Abbreviations -- Provides over 1200 abbreviations used in theological books: journal names,institutes, commentary series and book series.
• UK disertations access -- Access may be free except for the first requestor.
• Edinburgh Research Archive -- with essays by Larry Hurtado. Link is courtesy of evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com
• Scholar.google.com -- provides apparently a search system focused on scholars.

Books

• Wagner, G., An Exegetical Bibliography of the New Testament -- Romans and Galatians, Mercer University Press,1996 --provides a bibliography in print
• Das, Andrew, Solving the Romans Debate, Fortess, 2007
• Das, Andrew, Paul and the Jews, Hendrickson, 2003 [Book excerpt]
• Fowler, Paul B., "Paul's Letter to the Romans: A New Approach," read at the March 1977 meeting of the Southwestern Regional Section of the Evangelical Theological Society
• Jewett, Robert, Romans: A Commentary (Hermeneia: a Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible), Fortress Press, 2006
• Kulikovsky, Andrew S. The Historical Context of Paul's Letters To the Galatians and Romans , [web link],1999
• McRay, John, Paul: His Life and Teaching , Baker Academic, 2007 -- This is said to discuss Paul's use of pronouns.
• Moo, Douglas J. Epistle to the Romans, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996 [Review at sbts.edu]
• Russell, Walter B., III. "An alternative suggestion for the purpose of Romans." Bibliotheca Sacra, 145 (April, 1988), 174-184
• Stowers, Stanley, A Rereading of Romans: Justice, Jews, and Gentiles , Yale University Press(Reprint edition), 1997
• Talbert, Charles H. Romans. Has a review of cultural and arts interpretation of Romans (Review)

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