them as ‘the other missionaries’.1 We need not doubt that these other Jewish-Christian missionaries had (at least some) support among the Gentile Galatians. But it is very unlikely that the issues and challenges to Paul’s gospel in Galatia had arisen purely by spontaneous internal combustion. On the contrary it is difficult to see how such a comprehensive challenge to Paul’s gospel, and of such a clearly Jewish-Christian character could have arisen without input of a fairly determined and purposeful
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