Abstract
The opening of Paul's letter to Rome broadly follows the traditional Greco-Roman letter format: sender to receiver, Xaipatv; but within this framework, Paul inserts an unusual elaboration of the gospel under his selfcharacterization as the letter's author. Martin Hengel observed in 1975: more has been written about [Rom 1:3-4] than about any other New Testament text.I Even if Hengel's statement no longer holds true statistically, this confessional fragment in Paul's letter to Rome continues to command and deserve scholarly attention. The state and terms of twentieth-century discussion of Rom 1:3-4 were canonically formulated by Rudolf Bultmann:
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