James Dunn

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(21 October 1939 – 26 June 2020)
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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'.