Dr. Craig Keener, Romans, Lecture 1, Introduction

[@nannettephyffer3093]

Thank you Dr Hildebrandt and Dr Craig for making these incredible seminary level lectures available to students around the world without charging us...really what an amazing vision you had Dr Hildebrandt... the outcome on biblical elearning is amazing.....may our Lord richly bless you and the lecturers, thanks again SIr!

[@tedhildebrandt_BeL]

Timed Outline: 00:00 Genre: Letters vs. Epistles 4:40 Commitment to the Project 6:10 How to read Letters: rhetorical criticism 7:00 Parts of Letters, Greeting: blessing 11:40 Body of Letters 13:10 Hermeneutic: how to understand Letters 17:00 Moral issues versus cultural issues 20:15 Understand the cultural options available to the writer - slavery 21:30 Bible sometimes speaks with a unanimous voice against some elements of culture 22:00 Rhetoric pervasive in antiquity 24:45 Rhetoric vs. letters 26:20 Education in Tarsus 31:40 Studying with Gamaliel 33:10 Paul's letter as evidence 34:25 Some portraits of Paul in the past century of scholarship 36:30 Palestinian Jew (Sanders) 37:50 Cosmopolitan Greco-Roman background 39:35 Paul and Torah 42:25 Paul, Judaism and Rhetoric 53:30 The Setting: Rome 56:10 Rome 57:55 Setting: Rome's Jewish community 1:00:55 Roman xenophobia 1:02:05 Roman history and the church there

[@chechochimes]

Thanks God for Craig Keener's life! Thanks for the video.

[@pauljamesallen]

Thanks so much for posting this! Love it!

[@zerosparky9510]

Think of that. How many turned from Paul the Apostle. In Exodus. How many of the men of war made it through to the promised land? 2 Joshua and Caleb. Makes me think. Go on with God. No matter the cost. There will be some that will look at you and call u insane. Such is the cost.