Corpus-Paul

["Robert Lee Foster" <rfoster AT wbcoll.edu>]

> Subject: Re: Mark's Article for Review
> From: "Mark D. Nanos" <nanos AT gvi.net>
> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 07:52:56 -0500

> Details from stories constructed to illustrate his
> argumentative points or authority, person, etc., should be secondary, and
> even then screened for the rhetorical connections rather than expecting the
> details themselves to provide much information, about Galatia in
> particular, that is. 

I agree.  These stories may merely serve to establish his authority 
and have little to do with the present conflict in Galatia.  That 
relationship must be established after we first examine the passages 
which describe the Galatian conflict.

 >Of course the autobiographical material in this letter
> may provide the best information available for a meeting Paul had in
> Jerusalem and one in Antioch, in spite of whatever rhetorical limits may be
> imposed because they are embedded in a story constructed for a particular
> point or points he now seeks to illustrate for the Galatian addressees. But
> my concern in this paper was only with the situation of those Galatian
> addressees.

I might submit one example here.  (Confessing that I haven't read 
the earlier posts on this discussion)

The trouble causers in Galatians are frequently referred to as "false 
brothers" but in the text of Galatians, the false brothers were in 
Jerusalem not in Galatia.  The trouble causers in Galatia are only 
talked about or referred to as "the agitators" (or some like term).

This reference demonstrates the tendency to lump together the 
trouble causers of Jerusalem and Galatia.

> Thanks,
> Mark Nanos
> Kansas City
 
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