{"product_id":"9780802025104","title":"New Testament Scholarship: Paraphrases on Romans and Galatians","description":"\u003cp\u003eErasmus yearned to popularize the New Testament, to make the Bible and the understanding of Scripture available to everyone — to 'the farmer, the tailor, the mason, prostitutes, pimps, and Turks,' in his words. He therefore composed paraphrases in order to simplify and explain Scripture. The \u003ci\u003eParaphrases \u003c\/i\u003ewere successful beyond his expectations and were quickly translated into French, German, English and other languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn them the words of the Apostle Paul provide the core of a text which is expanded to clarify Paul's argument, revealing its assumptions, suggesting its implications, and setting its parts more clearly in relation to each other. In this respect, it is like a commentary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the \u003ci\u003eParaphrases\u003c\/i\u003e are much more than commentary. They seek not only to clarify, but also to enliven. They bring the reader to a direct confrontation with the Apostle himself by presenting the whole (both core words and expansion) under the \u003ci\u003epersona \u003c\/i\u003eof Paul, vividly portraying the Apostle's reactions to the situation to which he was responding in this letters. Erasmus takes the images and analogies through which Paul argues his case for 'justification through faith' and expands them into colorful and dramatic vignettes of the inner spiritual struggle and victory of 'everyman.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume 42 of the \u003ci\u003eCollected Works of Erasmus\u003c\/i\u003e series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026067669232,"sku":"9780802025104","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802025104_p0.jpg?v=1763726773","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802025104","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}