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Cutting too close for comfort : Paul's letter to the Galatians in its Anatolian cultic context / Susan Elliott.
Van Pelt Library BS2685.2 .E44 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elliott, Susan (Susan Margaret)
- Series:
- Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 248.
- Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 248
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Galatians--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Galatians.
- Galatians--Religion.
- Galatians.
- Circumcision--Religious aspects.
- Circumcision.
- Rhetoric in the Bible.
- Religion.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 391 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : T & T Clark International, [2003]
- Summary:
- A thick description of the Anatolian cultic context of the audience provides solutions to several persistent puzzles in Paul's letter to the Galatians. Starting with problems in the so-called "Hagar and Sarah" passage (4.21-5.1), this book argues that Paul attempts to dissuade his audience from being circumcised by identifying circumcision with the enslaving selfcastration of the galli of the Anatolian Mountain Mother of the Gods and by portraying the Law as a Mountain Mother. This background is also seen in the Flesh-Spirit dichotomy in Gal. 3.1-5 and in the two ways form in Galatians 5-6.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [358]-377) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0826466605
- OCLC:
- 54043132
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