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Paul and the Stories of Israel: Grand Thematic Narratives in Galatians is unavailable, but you can change that!

Much recent scholarship on Paul has searched for implicit narratives behind Paul’s scriptural allusions, especially in the wake of Richard B. Hays’ groundbreaking work on the apostle’s appropriation of Scripture. A. Andrew Das reviews six proposals for “grand thematic narratives” behind the logic of Galatians—potentially, six explanations for the fabric of Paul’s theology: the covenant (N. T....

instrument.66 Nevertheless, biblical and Second Temple covenantal texts do not use the specific legal terminology that Paul is employing in Gal. 3:15–17. Again, that legal terminology would have been familiar to the Galatian audience from a “last will and testament”: “ratify a will” (κυρόω διαθήκην), “annul a will” (ἀθετέω), “add a codicil” (ἐπιδιατάσσομαι).67 The testament or will is likewise irrevocable and inalterable by anyone other than the testator. Indeed, Josephus and Philo employ διαθήκη
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