James Dunn
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On Adam
“When Paul speaks of or alludes to Adam he speaks of humankind as a whole . . . We should probably see the figure of Adam, the archetypal human. . . . We may note at once, therefore, Paul's awareness that that Adam (adam) denotes humankind."
"Whether Paul also thought of Adam as a historical individual and of a historical act of disobedience is less clear.”— James Dunn, The Theology of Paul the Apostle pp 83, 91 and 94
as cited in 'The Thiselton Companion to Christian Theology'.
