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In this study, Scott C. Ryan situates Paul´s letter to the Romans as one voice among a number of Jewish voices that frame God as a divine warrior. He first investigates motifs related to divine conflict in Exodus 14-15, Amos, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel 7-12, along with 1 Enoch, Psalms of Solomon, Wisdom of Solomon, the War Scroll, and 4 Ezra. The author then places Romans in dialogue with the works of Paul´s predecessors and near contemporaries. When Romans and these Jewish texts are placed alongside one another, Paul emerges as a writer who participates in Jewish divine conflict traditions. The apostle maintains Israel´s eschatological hope in a warring deity even as he modifies that image in light of God´s action in the Christ-event.

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Ryan, Scott C.
Born 1981; 2003 BA from Gardner-Webb University; 2008 M.Div. and 2009 Th.M. from Duke University Divinity School; 2017 PhD in Religion/Biblical Studies from Baylor University; currently serves as the Wabash Fellow in Religion in the Department of Religion at Baylor University in Waco, TX.

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