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Mark, in your comment's on Martin's book you stated, "I
was also struck by his thesis on Gal. 4.10 mentioned in
the article, that this is about the Galatians returning
to a pagan time-keeping scheme rather than moving to a
Jewish one." Has not the same thing been proposed for
the comments in Col.2:16 about the feast day, new moon
and sabbath day? Some have speculated that the letter
to the Colossians was addressing Jewish gnosticism in
this case. I was just interested on what members on the
list had to say about the relation of the statement of
Gal.4:10 and that of Col.2:16. Are they referring to
Judaic observances? 

                                                       
                               Tony Costa, M.A.
                                                       
                           University of Toronto 



On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 11:49:14 +0100, "Mark Goodacre"
wrote:

> 
> I've just read Troy W. Martin, "The Covenant of
> Circumcision (Genesis 
> 17.9-14) and the  Situational Antitheses in Galatians
> 3.28", _JBL_ 
> 122 (2003), pp. 111-125.  The basic thesis of this
> paper, that Gal. 
> 3.28 mentions male/female and slave/free as well as 
> circumcised/uncircumcised because of the circumcision
> issue in 
> Galatia, relating this to the covenant of circumcision
> in Gen. 17, 
> seemed to me to be convincing and I was surprised to
> hear that this 
> is not a common view.  I wonder what others think of
> Martin's recent 
> article?
> 
> I was also struck by his thesis on Gal. 4.10 mentioned
> in the 
> article, that this is about the Galatians returning to
> a pagan time-
> keeping scheme rather than moving to a Jewish one.  He
> hints that 
> this thesis has not been well received (p. 116) and
> this does not 
> surprise me though I suppose I should suspend
judgement
> until I have 
> had a chance to read his detailed discussion of it. 
In
> the opinion 
> of list-members, is there anything to be said for this
> view?
> 
> Thanks
> Mark
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