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Reading Galatians, Philippians, and 1 Thessalonians: A Literary and Theological Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Charles Cousar interprets three letters of Paul, each of which shows the apostle in a different light. In Galatians, Paul contends for the gospel against a group of Jewish-Christian missionaries who have come into the congregations. In Philippians, Paul addresses his favorite community in intimate terms to offer thanks for a gift they have sent him and to urge them to maintain unity in the face...

against himself or the gospel as to urge the Gentile readers to resist the pressure to be circumcised and to live free and faithful lives. In connection with this, two particular points of rhetorical form militate against Betz’s judgment that Galatians represents juridical rhetoric. First, in juridical rhetoric the narrative section is central because it relates the facts of the case under dispute. But the narrative section of this letter (1:11–2:14) does not mention the circumstances of the dispute
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