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An Intertextual Commentary on Romans is an exhaustive treatment of the hundreds of Old Testament citations, allusions, and echoes embedded in Paul's most famous epistle. As many scholars have acknowledged, to understand Paul's engagement with Israel's Scriptures is to understand Romans. Despite this acknowledgment, there is a dearth of reference works in which the primary focus is how the Old Testament impacts Paul's argument from Romans 1:1 to 16:27. This four-volume commentary aims to provide just such a reference. The interplay between Romans and its vast sea of Old Testament pre-texts produces unstated points of resonance that illuminate Paul's rhetorical argument from the letter's opening to its closing doxology. Volume 3 examines the scriptural pre-texts in Romans 9:1--11:36. This section of the letter is the most intertextually dense section of the New Testament and the most theologically controversial section in the entire Pauline corpus. If interpreters hope to navigate these exegetical and theological challenges, they must carefully analyze the intertextual subtext of these chapters where Paul engages Israel's Scriptures at every rhetorical turn. This volume provides such an analysis. In this way, it also contributes to the commentary's overarching aim, which is to provide scholars, interpreters, and students with verse by verse analysis of how Israel's Scriptures impact almost every clause of Paul's most famous letter.

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In this third volume of An Intertextual Commentary on Romans, Channing Crisler continues his mammoth project of providing a close, careful, and comprehensive study of Paul's engagement with Scripture in his longest and most Scripture-soaked letter. Within Rom 9-11, scriptural echoes, allusions, and quotations are particularly thick on the ground, and Crisler offers insightful commentary on the way in which they function in Paul's argument. --David Starling, Morling College If there is any part of the New Testament that calls for a comprehensive commentary on its use of the Old Testament, it is surely Rom 9-11. Channing Crisler has now given us this gift. He makes a compelling case that Rom 9-11 represents the divine answer to Paul's lament over Israel's unbelief, an answer found in Scripture's promise that God will come and save his people. --Kevin W. McFadden, Cairn University

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Channing L. Crisler is Associate Professor of New Testament at Anderson University, South Carolina. He is the author of Reading Romans as Lament (2016) and Echoes of Lament and the Christology of Luke (2020).

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