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Respected New Testament scholar Peter Oakes argues that in Galatians, Paul presents a gospel of “unity in diversity” in Christ. If the Galatians’ abandoned Paul’s gospel, they wouldn’t just prove unfaithful to Paul, their very fidelity to Christ would be compromised. Oakes interacts with contemporary scholarship, draws on ancient backgrounds, and attends to the theological nature of the text....

the most common term used by modern writers to denote whatever it is supposed to denote about the life of ancient Jews (Mason 2007, 461). The only occurrences in early texts other than Galatians are in 2 Macc. 2:21; 8:1; 14:38 (2x); and 4 Macc. 4:26. Ioudaïsmos in Maccabean Literature “… and the appearances that came from heaven to those who fought bravely for [Ioudaïsmos] …” (2 Macc. 2:21 NRSV) “… and enlisted those who had continued [memenēkotas] in [Ioudaïsmos] …” (2 Macc. 8:1 NRSV) “A certain
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