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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....

However, there is a strong overall consensus that Galatians was written as a single letter. An initial read-through of Galatians shows that the content includes two particularly prominent elements. The letter opening and narrative in Gal. 1 lay particular emphasis on the divine origin of Paul’s authority and message, an emphasis linked to a rebuke of the recipients for turning away from this message at the instigation of third parties. The second element is an argument relating to Jewish law. This
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