this issue in Chapter IV has attracted insistent response and attention within the scholarly guild,6 this problem of translation plays a subsidiary role in the larger argument. The central thesis of the book is stated forthrightly in the opening pages and reiterated in the concluding chapter: a story about Jesus Christ is presupposed by Paul’s argument in Galatians, and his theological reflection attempts to articulate the meaning of that story. Thus, the book’s subtitle is a better guide to its
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