THE WEDDED WIFE OF ROMANS 7:1-6

Kurek-Chomycz, Dominika (2021) THE WEDDED WIFE OF ROMANS 7:1-6. In: Dying with Christ - New Life in Hope. Peeters Publishers, Leuven, pp. 107-135. ISBN 9789042943377

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Abstract

Over half a century ago, in his 1964 study of analogy in Paul’s letters, Herbert Gale stated the following: “in Paul’s use of analogy his pictures provide no reliable clue as to his thought or understanding with respect to the phenomena or life situations that those pictures represent or from which they are drawn”1. This is not a conclusion that contemporary Pauline scholars, especially those acquainted with cognitive linguistic approaches to metaphor, are likely to endorse. Still, authors commenting
on Rom 7:1-6 often dismiss the imagery in these verses as “just an illustration/analogy”, considering it more important to focus on what the passage may tell us about Paul’s view on the role of the law, and the believers’ relationship to it. Since it is often treated as “just an analogy”, it does not feature in exegetical debates as much as the rest of chapter 7 does, in spite of several interesting studies devoted to it in the last few decades. Yet these studies often concentrate on how the imagery is to be applied, whether it is coherent, how it relates to the immediate and broader context of the letter, or whether it does indeed involve an analogy.

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Date Deposited:	14 Jan 2025 15:14
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