Collected Works of Erasmus
Paraphrases on Romans and Galatians
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- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 1984
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- Renaissance, Reference, Religious
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- 9781442641938
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- 9780802099792
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- Apr 2010
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- 9780802038364
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- Jan 2006
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- 9780802028037
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- Apr 1994
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- 9780802006646
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- Mar 1995
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- Jan 1994
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- 9780802092229
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- Mar 2019
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- 9781487502768
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- Nov 2018
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- 9781442641150
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- Nov 2012
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- 9781487515980
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- Mar 2019
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- 9780802036438
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- Apr 2005
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- 9780802043825
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- Apr 1999
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- 9781487544720
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- May 2021
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- 9781487546298
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- Jan 2023
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- 9781442641662
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Description
Erasmus 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 Paraphrases were successful beyond his expectations and were quickly translated into French, German, English and other languages.
In 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.
But the Paraphrases 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 persona of 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.’
Volume 42 of the Collected Works of Erasmus series.
About the authors
Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536), a Dutch humanist, Catholic priest, and scholar, was one of the most influential Renaissance figures. A professor of divinity and Greek, Erasmus wrote, taught, and travelled, meeting with Europe’s foremost scholars. A prolific author, Erasmus wrote on both ecclesiastic and general human interest subjects.
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Robert D. Sider is the Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages at Dickinson College and an adjunct professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan.