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Walking in the Spirit in Galatians: Comparing Obedience and Agency in Galatians, 1QS, and 4 Maccabees
… agency with regard to walking by the Spirit in Galatians, focusing on 5:16–25, with an eye toward what 5:17 specifically adds to the conversation. Divine and human agency in Galatians is then compared to 1QS and 4 Maccabees. Chapters 2 and 3, examine what can be determined about the role the …
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Persecution and Cosmic Conflict in Galatians
This dissertation argues that persecution in Galatians manifests the cosmic conflict between God and the present evil age. Chapter 1 introduces the reader to the topic of persecution in Galatians and the history of research. Chapter 2 demonstrates that Paul uses the theme of cosmic conflict to …
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Galatians as Dialogical Response to Opponents
<p>This thesis seeks to discover the center of Galatians, its unique theological statement, by approaching the question from the perspective of the dialogical nature of the letter as a piece of literature, and the theology of the opponents with which it is dialogical. The context of a piece of …
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The Text of Galatians and Its History
… investigates the text of Paul's Epistle to the Galatians and its history, how it changed over time. This dissertation performs a stemmatic analysis of 92 witnesses to the text of Galatians, using cladistic methods developed by computational biologists, to construct an unoriented stemma of the …
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Paul and Allegory: Galatians 4:21–31 Revisited
… the texts discussed in this conversation, Galatians 4:21–31 stands out. Paul’s methods seem foreign to modern minds, and he even seems to flag his reading as an allegory, leading many to see in this text a justification for allegorical hermeneutics. This dissertation attempts to address the …
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A question of identity : who were the Galatians?
… to answer the research question: who were the Galatians? It focuses on their identity over the period when they are known to history, from about 279 BCE to the sixth or eighth century CE. Chapter 1 presents the research question and the four subsidiary questions, which mirror the order and …
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Abraham and the exile in Galatians 3:1-14
… dissertation examines the thesis that Paul, in Galatians 3:1-14, is making a prophetic statement to the Galatians in which he interprets the story of Israel from Abraham through the Exile to provide an historical example of the fact that entrance into the people of God is gained only through …
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The new Exodus in Paul's letter to the Galatians
… various central themes have been suggested for Galatians, including justification by faith alone, the need for Gentiles to follow the Mosaic law (via the New Perspective on Paul), or sonship, none of them truly binds the letter together or is satisfactorily represented in all six chapters. The …
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Promise and Freedom, Flesh and Slavery: Paul's Hermeneutical Key in Galatians 4:21-5:1 in Light of the Themes and the Structure of Galatians
… both the thematic and schematic content of Galatians. While the first chapter summarizes and categorizes the typical interpretations of the difficult Galatians 4:21-5:1, the second chapter seeks to critique these approaches to the allegory. The value of applying Paul’s interpretive lens (Gal …
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The Meaning of ὁ νομος του χριστου in Galatians 6:2
… regarding the phrase ὁ νόμος τοῦ Χριστοῦ in Galatians 6:2. I place my work within broader scholarship’s trajectory by explaining my thesis–that the νόμος in the phrase refers to “principle,” unwritten law, rather than written law such as the Mosaic law and another law–briefly addressing my …
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Law and Love in Second Temple Judaism and in Galatians 5:14
… the love command of Leviticus 19:18 in Galatians 5:14 primarily in the light of Jesus Christ. This does not mean that Paul considers Christ only when he states the relationship between the law and love in Galatians 5:14. Paul neither ignores the Old Testament law, or the love command …
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Galatians 2:20 as a Corrective to Selected Contemporary Views of Christian Spirituality
… views of Christian Spirituality in light of Galatians 2:20 in order to correct some common errors caused by the elevation of personal subjectivism and the misinterpretation of Scripture. The purpose is to demonstrate the continual necessity of the Scriptures as the normative grounds for …
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The role of ἐπαγγελία in Galatians with particular focus on 3:14-22.
This study focuses on Paul’s use of ἐπαγγελία in Galatians, and particularly in Gal. 3:14-22. This has been a matter of relative scholarly neglect in Pauline studies, although the term is prominently and intensively employed 8 times in those 9 verses and sits in direct relationship with almost …
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The Empirical Development of a College Curriculum of the Epistle to the Galatians
… there is no curriculum for the Epistle to the Galatians, this study was intended to provide college religion students with the opportunity to understand cognitively and to apply experientially the claims of the gospel as presented in Galatians.</p> <p><em>Method</em>. The basic philosophy of …
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Abraham traditions in Middle Jewish literature : implications for the interpretation of Galatians and Romans.
… to the Mosaic law, and he was hospitable. In Galatians Paul employed the first two Jewish traditions of Abraham in the context of early Christianity to define those who are now members of the people of God. Paul argued forcefully that obedience to law was inferior to being "in Christ" (Gal …
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A study of the Apostle Paul's approach to the law in Galatians chapters 2 and 3.
… the law seemed to evoke. This paper investigates Galatians chapters 2 and 3 in an attempt to derive a slightly different reading of Paul‟s treatment of the law to that which permeates traditional Christian and Jewish theology. It briefly assesses historical sensitivities that may well have …
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