Commentary on Romans

Karl P. Donfried --Smith College "Kaesemann's pioneering commentary is seminal and will profoundly influence the agenda for all future studies and reflections on Romans, Pauline theology, and systematic in general. Our comprehension of Paul is enormously deepened by this work -- astonishing in its learning, vision, and human understanding." James M. Robinson --Claremont Graduate School "Kaesemann's Romans is written with a theological passion comparable only to that of Barth's Romans -- and Paul's Romans itself! The striking similarities to the doctrine of God's righteousness in the Dead Sea Scrolls are here for the first time analyzed in detail, and the distinctiveness of Paul's teaching disengaged with new precision. This commentary, free of school attachments, is saturated in the scholarly tradition and presents the growing edge of scholarship in a mature and compelling way. It is clearly the best commentary on Romans available today." Ralph P. Martin --Fuller Theological Seminary "A magisterial, if individualistic, interpretation not only of Paul's central letter but of the entire range of Pauline thought and theology. It aims to show 'what Paul meant theologically, ' and it admirably succeeds in that endeavor."