Interpreting
Galatians

explorations in
exegetical method

second edition

moisés silva

©1996, 2001 by Moisés Silva

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Silva, Moisés.

Interpreting Galatians: Explorations in Exegetical Method / Moisés Silva.—2nd ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8010-2305-X (pbk.)

1. Bible. N.T. Galatians—Criticism, interpretation, etc. I. Silva, Moisés. Explorations in exegetical method. II. Title.
BS2685.52 .S55 2001
227 p.406—dc21

2001043500

Parts of chapters 1 and 4 of the present book appeared in a slightly different version in “Text and Language in the Pauline Corpus: With Special Reference to the Use of Conjunctions in Galatians.” Neotestamentica 24 (1990): 273–81. Used by permission.

Part of chapter 6 of the present book appeared in a slightly different version in Hermeneutics, Authority, and Canon, ed. D. A. Carson and John D. Woodbridge, 111–12 and 122–33. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1986; reprint, Grand Rapids: Baker, 1995.

Parts of chapter 8 and the epilogue of the present book appeared in a slightly different version in “Systematic Theology and the Apostle to the Gentiles.” Trinity Journal, n.s., 15 (1994): 3–26. Used by permission.

Part of chapter 9 of the present book appeared in a slightly different version in Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, edited by Gerald F. Hawthorne, Ralph P. Martin, and Daniel G. Reid, 638–42. ©1993 by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship of the USA. Used by permission of InterVarsity Press, P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL 60515.

Part of chapter 10 of the present book appeared in a slightly different version in To Tell the Mystery: Essays on New Testament Eschatology in Honor of Robert H. Gundry, ed. Thomas E. Schmidt and Moisés Silva, 143–62. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series 100. Sheffield: JSOT, 1994. Used by permission of Sheffield Academic Press.

Part of chapter 11 of the present book appeared in a slightly different version in Theonomy: A Reformed Critique, ed. William S. Barker and W. Robert Godfrey, 157–67. Copyright © 1990 by William S. Barker and W. Robert Godfrey. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House.

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