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• 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 links below or on the webpage menubar. Some useful reports are available to directly list articles and books addressing topics sorted to the chapters of Romans. Even the simple titles of books and articles give a clue to the questions raised about Romans.

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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--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
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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. Most books are on topics related to Romans and most books can be listed for topics related to a specific chapter of Romans. (So a book about 'faith' may be identified to Rom 4. You can then list all books that may be useful in the study of Rom 4. You would select 'Reports' and set the 'Filter by Value' field to 'Categories - Rom4' )
• Romans Bibliography -- list all papers
• 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.
• 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

Tools

• 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.
• Personal writing tools -- I have assembled and created tools and techniques to keep track of the information needed to write on Romans.
• UniGreek and TypeGreek.com --Free tool to type Greek letters directly or in betacode. The first link is for the program download. The second link is the live website conversion.
• Local Greek BetaCode application --This is under development.
• www.sbl-site.org SBL research tools webpage
• sblgnt.com SBL Greek New Testament text and apparatus -- Since Oct 28,2010.
• 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.
• Bible.org series on Romans -- audio(mp3) files of teaching by Kenneth Boa.
• 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.
• BibleDatabase.org search tool. This tool is handy for searching a Greek word in the LXX or NT (plus searches of various translations).
• Little Greek lessons on NT Greek.
• Parsing of Romans 4 -- seems like this format could be helpful. see more at http://www.gracebiblechurch.us/bible.html
• www.theNarrowPath.com -- teaching ministry of Steve Gregg providing free audio classes studying all the Old and New Testament books.

Books

• Wagner, G., An Exegetical Bibliography of the New Testament -- Romans and Galatians, Mercer University Press,1996 --provides a bibliography in print
• 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.
• Talbert, Charles H. Romans. Has a review of cultural and arts interpretation of Romans (Review)

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