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  • From: "moon-ryul jung" <moon AT saint.soongsil.ac.kr>
  • To: corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Gal 4:8-10 (To Mark Nanos)
  • Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:24:37 -0400


Mark said:

But why have they been considering this other (traditional) message
of proselyte conversion as good for themselves? (by the way, they do
not appear to desire to be under the Law per se, but just accepted
unambiguously on the terms of those who are, that is, to be
Law-people; thus Paul's subversive rhetoric in 5:3 undermines their
naivete). That is the issue, and if it is as I have proposed, then
these situational units undermine the same situational factors that
are undermined in 4:8-10; namely, the perception that they must
comply with the influencers' (and their family's/neighbor's)
constraints or lose out on that which they had been led by Paul to
believe they have already attained.

[Moon]

Let me ask some clarifying questions:
Q1:
Do you mean that some of the Galatians considered complying with the
Jewish norm and some with the Roman norm, to avoid the social
pressure/persecution from the pagan society? If so

Q2:
The social pressure from the pagan society would have been there right
after they were converted. It means that they had this problem of
social compliance immediately. But Paul implies that they did well
at the beginning, and got wrong later. How would you explain it?

Regards,
Moon





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