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Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 41: Galatians is unavailable, but you can change that!

One of the most influential volumes on Galatians, Richard Longenecker offers a fresh translation of Galatians and gives the reader a thorough discussion of such matters as authorship, date, and textual problems, while also addressing the problems Paul faced within his Galatian churches. Longenecker reviews the message of Paul’s opponents and the impact of Paul’s thought on Christianity.

to “the day-to-day conduct of those who had already believed” (so J. D. G. Dunn, BJRL 65 [1983] 121)? In our judgment, J. A. Ziesler has largely resolved this dilemma in demonstrating that the verb δικαιόω in Paul’s letters is used forensically and relationally, but that the noun δικαιοσύνη and adjective δίκαιος have also behavioral nuances—thereby showing how Paul joins forensic and ethical categories in his understanding of righteousness, with the one always involving the other (see his The
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