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Grace in Galatia: A Commentary on Paul’s Letter to the Galatians is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Grace in Galatia, Witherington analyzes the whole of Galatians as a deliberative discourse meant to forestall the Galatians from submitting to circumcision and the Jewish law. The commentary features the latest discussion of major problems in Pauline studies, including Paul’s view of the law and the relationship between the historical data in Galatians and in Acts. The narrative character of...

The further history of this province is of some relevance to our discussion because the earliest Christian discussions of Paul’s Galatians were undertaken with a knowledge only of subsequent developments in the province. By this I mean that we need to be aware that Vespasian detached almost all of Pisidia from Galatia in A.D. 74 and about A.D. 137 Lycaonia Galatica was removed and added to an enlarged province of Cilicia. In A.D. 297 southern Galatia was united with surrounding regions to form a
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