This review was published by RBL 2012 by the Society of Biblical Literature. For more information on obtaining a subscription to RBL, please visit http://www.bookreviews.org/subscribe.asp. RBL 06/2012 Longenecker, Richard N. Introducing Romans: Critical Issues in Paul’s Most Famous Letter Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011. Pp. xxvii + 490. Paper. $40.00. ISBN 9780802866196. Akio Ito Tokyo Christian University Inzai, Chiba, Japan Richard N. Longenecker, professor emeritus of New Testament at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, has offered his mature Pauline scholarship to the wider public as prolegomena to his full-scale exegetical commentary on Paul’s letter to the Christians at Rome. The book is aptly titled since it introduces issues concerning Romans raised in critical scholarship to a general readership. The book is conveniently divided into five parts: (1) “Important Matters Largely Uncontested Today”; (2) “Two Pivotal Issues”; (3) “Conventions, Procedures, and Themes”; (4) “Textual and Interpretive Concerns”; and (5) “Focus, Structure, and Argument of Romans.” Part 1 consists of three chapters on (1) author, amanuensis, and involvement of others; (2) integrity; and (3) occasion and date. Part 2 raises the controversial issues of the (4) addressees and (5) purpose of Romans. Part 3 is divided into two chapters on (6) Greco- Roman oral, rhetorical, and epistolary conventions and (7) Jewish and Jewish Christian procedures and themes. Part 4 concerns (8) establishing the text and (9) major interpretive approaches prominent today. Part 5 takes up (10) the focus or central thrust