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READING ROMANS AS A DIATRIBE - CHANGWON SONG GE...

This book illustrates how the macro-structure of the «body» of Romans essentially follows that
of the diatribes in Epictetus's Discourses. As in Discourses  the diatribe in Romans begins
with the thesis (1.16-17)  then follows an indictment (1.18-32) and dialogues with a fictitious
second-person singular in chapter two. Arguments with the m genoito formula dominate the middle
part of the diatribe. In the middle of chapter eleven  the phase changes back to dialogues with
the second-person singular. The ending of the diatribe Romans also  like Discourses  includes
cynic and hyperbolic statements (14.21 and 14.23). Thus  the «body» of Romans should not be
read as a real letter  but as a diatribe that was distributed in Paul's schoolroom and later
appropriated as a letter. This teaching was not directed to a specific group of people  viz. 
the Christians in Rome  but rather intrinsically universalized. Therefore  its message is
intrinsically more powerful for us.

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