Scholars often ask how Pauls polemic against Gentile idolatry and immorality in Romans 1:1832 prepares for indicting a Jewish interlocutor in 2:111. This study proposes that Pauls argumentation draws on the portrayal of Jewish identity in Psalm 106 and that in drawing on this portrayal Paul was participating in a larger discussion, one that included the Wisdom of Solomon and one in which evocations of the golden calf figured prominently.
Alec J. Lucas, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Ill., USA.
