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Galatians Re-imagined: Reading with the Eyes of the Vanquished is unavailable, but you can change that!

Brigitte Kahl brings to this insightful reading of Galatians a deep knowledge of the classical world and especially of Roman imperial ideology. The first wave of scholarship on the Roman imperial context of Paul’s letters raised important questions that only thorough treatments of individual letters can answer. Kahl sets the letter to the Galatians in the context of Roman perceptions of...

Roman Empire alone, not of any other god whose empire is rumored among Jews, that is, a group that distinguishes itself through circumcision. When Paul declares that neither circumcision nor foreskin matters any longer because both circumcised Jews and uncircumcised Galatians belong to Abraham’s seed and stand under the authority of Israel’s God alone, that declaration smashes an icon of Roman law and order. And the Galatians’ foreskin, never before of any significance, all of a sudden, emerges as
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