Abraham as Spiritual Ancestor: A Postcolonial Zimbabwean Reading of Romans 4
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Drawing on the ideology of the Augustan era of constructing ancestors, this book is about Paul's creative construction of Abraham as a spiritual ancestor of "all" people who have the faith of Abraham and Sarah. The book breaks new accademic grounds on the value of ancestors in a 21st century global Christian world.
Preface ixAcknowledgements xiIntroduction 1Chapter 1 The Ancestor in Greco-Roman Culture: The Case of Aeneas 37Chapter 2 Abraham in Hellenistic-Jewish Context 87Chapter 3 The Shona Ancestral Cosmology 159Chapter 4 Ancestry and Descendancy in Romans 4 203Conclusion 237Bibliography 247Index of Ancient Documents 263Subject Index 265
