Paul, The Apostle of Obedience: Reading Obedience in Romans - Paperbackby Jason A. Myers (Author), Chris Keith (Editor) Jason A. Myers reconsiders the meaning and context of the phrase "the obedience of faith" in Rom 1: 5 and how it contributes to the theme of obedience in Romans. In contrast to previous studies that have nearly exclusively focused on the obedience language in light of the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple literature, Myers instead investigates how this language functioned within the Greco Roman world,