4 They are Israelites the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship and the promises all belong to them. 3 Left to my own self, I am half-inclined to pray that I would be accursed, cut off from the Messiah, on behalf of my own family, my own flesh-and-blood relatives. I call my conscience as witness, in the holy spirit, 2 that I have great sorrow and endless pain in my heart. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God, ch.11ĩ:1 I’m speaking the truth in the Messiah I’m not lying. Romans 9-11’s Chiastic structure based on You can judge for yourself whether or not you find it persuasive or a helpful way to read this section of Scripture. Here it is below for those who are curious. (I thought that was only fitting!) I’ve indented the corresponding sections chiastically. So using the Bible study approach I suggested in a previous Dojo blog post (which I still believe to be the single most effective way of studying overall books of the Bible in the modern age!), I copied and pasted Romans 9-11 into a Word doc and formatted it according to Wright’s suggested structure…using his “ Kingdom New Testament” which I have on my Kindle reader. I wanted to share it with Disciple Dojo readers in a way that visually helps them see Wright’s proposed structure…and thus a potential way to make sense of the overall flow of this most dense (and often confusing!) section of the book. But what initially piqued my interest, and has become more convincing the more I read and reread Romans 9-11, is Wright’s suggestion that the entire section is structured chiastically. Wright spends around 200 pages just on these three chapters of Romans…but given the amount of ink that has been spilled over the past 2,000 years on that section of the book, his treatment is well worth reading and engaging with overall. Wright’s chapter on Romans 9-11 in his MASSIVE magnum opus “ Paul and the Faithfulness of God“. 9-11, one of which came from my re-reading N.T. I shared with her a few suggestions about Romans chs. I recently had a friend ask me for help, as she was preparing to teach Romans chapter 9 in her adult Sunday School class. This is a particularly Bible-geekish post.
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