Medieval Readings of Romans

William S. Campbell is Reader in Biblical Studies, University of Wales, UK, is author of 'Paul's Gospel in Inter-Cultural Context' (1992) and is Editor of Journal of Beliefs and Values. Peter S. Hawkins is Professor of Religion and Literature at Yale University Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music, Worship and the Arts, USA. His previous books include Dante’s Testaments: Essays on Scriptural Imagination and The Poet’s Dante: Twentieth Century Reflections. Brenda Deen Schildgen is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis, USA. She is the author of five books, including Power and Prejudice: Reception of the Gospel of Mark (Wayne State University Press, 1999), which was the recipient of a Best Academic Book Choice award, Pagans, Tartars, Jews, and Moslems in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (University of Florida Press, 2001), Dante and the Orient (University of Illinois Press, 2002), and Heritage or Heresy: Destruction and Preservation of Religious Images and Artifacts in Europe (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2008). She is also the co-editor of five books, including Other Renaissances (co-edited with Zhou Gang and Sander Gilman, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006).

Review in International Review of Biblical Studies, vol. 54:2007/08

• Introduction: Paul's Letter to the Romans in the Middle Ages - Peter S.Hawkins, Brenda D.Schildgen Romans in the Twelfth Century 1. Another Look at Abelard's Commentary on Romans 3:26 - H.Lawrence Bond2. Romans as Read in School and Cloister in the Twelfth-Century: The Commentaries of Peter Abelard and William of Saint Thierry - Jean Doutre3. Female Monasticism in the Twelfth Century: Peter Abelard, Heloise, and Paul's Letter to the Romans - Brenda D. Schildgen4. Medieval Readings of Old and New Law: From Sacra Pagina to Sacra Doctrina - Ian Christopher LevyRomans in the Thirteenth Century 5. The Love of Learning and the Desire for God in Thomas Aquinas's Commentary on Romans - Thomas F. Ryan6. Dante, St. Paul, and the Epistle to the Romans - Peter S. HawkinsResponses to Papers7. Abelard's Interpretation of Romans : Response to Jean Doutre - Charles H. Cosgrove8. Comparative Methods and the Rhetorical-Theological Presence of Romans in Dante: Response to Peter S. Hawkins - William Franke9. Response to H.Lawrence Bond, Ian C. Levy, and Thomas F.Ryan - James D.G.Dunn10. Response to H.Lawrence Bond, Ian C. Levy, and Thomas F.Ryan - Philip D.W.KreyRomans on the Eve of the Reformation11. First in Knowledge of Divine Law: The Jews and the Old Law in Nicholas of Lyra's Romans Commentary - Deeana Copeland Klepper12. Romans Commentaries in the Later Middle Ages - Mark W. ElliottConclusion: Reading Romans in Conversation with Medieval Interpreters: The Challenge of Cross-Fertilization - William S. Campbell