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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...

ritualized communities, which provided for initiates an alternative structure/anti-structure paradigm with which to interpret their social ambiguity.32 Yet he noticed that these Paulinist groups, like every social movement, were in fact in the process of developing their own structures and could scarcely have evaded altogether the structures that surrounded them. “Thus,” Meeks concludes, “the dialectic between ‘structure and anti-structure’ that Turner describes appears again and again in the tensions
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