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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...

The transition from Republic to Empire under Julius Caesar’s successor, Octavian (styled “Augustus” by the senate), saw an explosion of images and works of architecture that exhibited the new ideology and power arrangements. None of these images was a replica of the Great Altar of Pergamon, yet there are plenty of visual echoes. The Forum of Augustus, which constructed the whole of Roman history and identity,
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