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  • From: Loren Rosson <rossoiii AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Corpus-paul <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: galli (was North/South Galatian Theory)
  • Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 09:34:22 -0800 (PST)



Mark wrote:

> I have no problem
> with an allusion, with the suggestion that galli
> castration might
> illuminate the comment about castration in the world
> of the
> addressees, but is that what is being claimed at
> work here? If so,
> then I do not see what this tells us about the
> players themselves,
> except that they live in a world in which this
> allusion is alive, and
> undesirable...

This is my own assumption. Paul rhetorically
associates circumcision with pagan self-castration
prevalent in Galatia, but that hardly leads to the
conclusion that the influencers were themselves galli.


Loren Rosson III,
Nashua NH
rossoiii AT yahoo.com


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