Book

Galatians

Philip F. Esler · 1998

A scholarly translation and detailed commentary on Paul's Letter to the Galatians, part of the Anchor Yale Bible series, examining the letter as dramatic narrative with analysis of its historical context, key figures, and theological arguments.

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What this book knows

Paul's letter to Galatia stakes Gentile identity on faith-righteousness, not Torah-boundary markers separating peoples.

Sex: Absent
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

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self-and-identity

righteousness was a way of describing and celebrating the legitimacy of Israelite identity… a human being does not become righteous by works of the law but through faith
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cultural features figuring in ethnic boundaries are at times subject to negotiation; one cannot argue from social interaction in one area to breakdown of proscription in another
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faith-and-doubt

God acquits the sinner, God declares a person to be just — a very common forensic view, though its Septuagint basis is slighter than supposed
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freedom exists only for people who have been enabled to be free; it was Christ who liberated the Galatians, his Spirit enabling them
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belonging

the pre-Christian situation branded as slavery under Torah and the elements of the world, while freedom in Christ provides the major topic following
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you are children of the promise, like Isaac… the child of the slave will not share the inheritance with the child of the free woman
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