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Turley begins by surveying the history of the interface between ritual studies and Pauline scholarship, identifying the scholarly gaps in both method and conclusions and a ritual theory adequate to address such gaps. The focus of the work is then on the two rituals that identified the Pauline communities: ritual washings and ritual meals. Turley explores Galatians and 1 Corinthians, two letters...

accommodate two mutually exclusive positions (the eating of idol food while condemning idolatry) as part of his larger rhetoric of reconciliation.5 Smit proposes that 8:4–6 along with 10:1–22 represent Paul’s theological argument (the effect eating idol food has on the Corinthians’ relationship to God) while 8:1–3 and 8:7–9:27 constitute his social argument (the effect that such meals have on fellow believers).6 Yeo posits that the content of 9:24–10:22 reflects Jewish halakhic concerns that address
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