short description: Amongst all the commentaries on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans Leenhardt's commentary has won a distinguished place. Marked by a freshness, lucidity and a firm grasp of the inner essentials of the Epistle, the commentary is both scholarly and readable.

Amongst all the commentaries on St Paulis Epistle to the Romans Leenhardtis has won a distinguished place. Marked by freshness, lucidity and a firm grasp of the inner essentials of the Epistle, the commentary is both scholarly and readable. An outstanding work for many years to come.

This volume gives a glimpse into debate in Scandinavia concerning a number of inter-related Biblical concepts, a debate associated with scholars such as Mowinckel, Pedersen, Widengren and Bentzen himself. The argument starts from the present Messiah of many of the Psalms, representing a demythologized form of the Oriental conception of kingship. The next stage is the eschatologized -Messianic- figure of the prophetic thought of Isaiah and Micah. Later the prophet--Messiah- of the Second Isaiah, still a present and entirely human figure, embodies the insight that the saviour of Israel must...