Corpus-Paul

["moon-ryul jung" <moon AT saint.soongsil.ac.kr>]

Dear interpreters of Paul,

Recently there were some discussions on the issue of "under curse" in Gal 
3:10-13. Mark Nanos said the following:

Nanos: 
Circumcision is a 
cut in the flesh to identify descendents of Abraham. Paul argues that 
this identity precedes descendency from Jacob/Moses, which is the 
identity apparently indicated by circumcision for the influencers in 
the situation addressed in Galatia. He argues that this other 
identity involves them in ***identifying with a people under a curse**, 
which they need not do since they are already identified with 
Abraham. 

This interpretation makes Paul say: 

Oh, do you want to become a Jew by being circumcised?
But don't you know that the Jewish people is under curse?
Why do you want to identify with those under curse?

But it does not seem to match the fact that 
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law (Gal 3:10),
which seems to indicate that the curse of the law
is a reality whether they are identified with
the Jewish people or not.


Moon
Moon R. Jung
Associate Professor
Dept of Computer Science
Soongsil University
Seoul, Korea


How can 


Pthe ge So, It seems that it would be interesting to talk about
this line of interpretation.