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This study began life as a doctoral thesis at Aarhus University in 2011. The present reorganized and rewritten product was part of my dissertation of 2014, ‘Paul, Paulitics and προσωποποιία.’ In the meantime, parts of the dissertation were expanded, and other parts entirely omitted, for example, the analysis of Giorgio Agamben’s interpretation of Romans.

In my time as a doctoral student, the Department of Biblical Studies at Aarhus University gave me a home and an eminently congenial place to work. My colleagues provided stimulus, discussion, criticism, and sympathy. I was outstandingly fortunate to have Professor Eve-Marie Becker and Professor Svend Andersen as my doctoral supervisors. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to them both for giving me the opportunity to realize this project. I also wish to express my gratitude to Professor Hermut Löhr (Münster), Dr. Ward Blanton (Kent), and Associate Professor Kasper Bro Larsen (Aarhus) who were my examiners. They honoured me with the care and attentiveness they gave to my dissertation. Their suggestions were welcome improvements that are reflected in the present work. Their enthusiasm for my work was deeply gratifying.

I would like to thank the editors of the NET (‘Neutestamentliche Entwürfe zur Theologie’) for accepting my manuscript for the series, and the Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, especially Isabel Johe and Valeska Lembke, and Vanessa Weihgold for helping me through the publication process. I also want to thank Aarhus University Research Foundation (AUFF) for finansial aid in the publication process. I also want to thank Michaela Scioscia for proofreading the manuscript.

It goes without saying that a project such as the one whose fruits are represented here requires the energy and commitment of more than just one person. I am indebted and grateful to the following people without whom this work would not have materialized: Mom, Dad, Julie, Markus, Frederik, Kristin, Rasmus, Malene, Silas, Henning, Rie, Caro, Lotte, Lars Nørgaard, Kristian Mejrup, Hans Christiansen and Mads Dambæk. I also want to thank everyone who read parts of, or the entire manuscript, and helped improve it: Jon Stewart, Tyler Smith, Silas Mortensen, Lars Östman, Lone Fatum, Dale Martin and Eve-Marie Becker.

I especially wish to thank Eve-Marie Becker for her mentorship, counsel, and for her intellectual grit and creativity. Her competence as a scholar and supervisor are exceeded only by her generosity as a friend. She supported me and believed in this project from its tiny inception to the final refinements. I will continue to learn from her for years to come.

Lastly and most importantly, I wish to thank my family for their love and support. Jonathan and Sarah, I love you. Sofie, this book is in many ways yours as much as it is mine. I dedicate it to you, since I could not have done this without you, and I would not want it in any other way. I love you.

Jacob P. B. Mortensen

Frederiksberg, December, 2017