The Irony of Galatians: Paul's Letter in First-Century Context. By Mark D. Nanos. Pp. xiii + 376. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002. isbn 0 8006 3214 1. Paper 26/ Canada 39
This book challenges the conclusions of nearly all scholars who have written on the identity of the ‘agitators’ and the nature of the woes experienced in the Galatian churches before Paul wrote his most spirited letter. Nanos denies that the Galatian agitators (here dubbed ‘influencers’) were believ...
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| Language: | English |
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2005
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 568-572 |
| Review of: | The irony of Galatians (Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, 2002) (Stanton, Graham)
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| Summary: | This book challenges the conclusions of nearly all scholars who have written on the identity of the ‘agitators’ and the nature of the woes experienced in the Galatian churches before Paul wrote his most spirited letter. Nanos denies that the Galatian agitators (here dubbed ‘influencers’) were believers in Jesus Christ. Their message was not in any sense good news of Christ: this was simply not their concern. ‘Their concerns did not arise from inter-Christian opposition to Paul or his supposed Law-free gospel, and they did not arrive suddenly from outside Galatia’ (p. 317). The addressees of Paul's letter were ‘Jesus sub-groups’ of the larger Jewish communities at this time. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fli137 |