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- From: "Elli Elliott" <elli AT visi.com>
- To: "Corpus-Paul" <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Corpus-Paul] Gal 5:12
- Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 08:25:20 -0600
Happy New Year!
Jim West queried about Gal. 5:12.
Paul is speaking sarcastically here. (i.e. "So if
they're so hyped to get you guys to be circumcised, why don't they just go ahead
and castrate themselves!")
According to the research I've done on Galatians in its
Anatolian context, this zinger caps a rhetorical strategy Paul begins in 3:1 and
is seen most clearly in 4:21-5:1. He associates circumcision (and the Law)
with the self-castration of the galli of the Mother of the Gods (and
the Law as one of the Mountain Mothers). He contrasts baptism and Christ
to this joined negative association.
If you are interested, my book on this is finally
available: (Susan M. Elliott, Cutting Too Close for Comfort: Paul's
Letter to the Galatians in its Anatolian Cultic Context. Journal for
the Study of the New Testamnet Supplement Series, 248. London & New York: T.
& T. Clark International, 2003.)
The basic core of the argument can be found in an
article: ("Choose
Your Mother, Choose Your Master: Galatians 4:21-5:1 in the Shadow of the
Anatolian Mountain Mother of the Gods."
Journal of Biblical Literature, 118 (1999) 661-683.
(...
interesting, but not preachable ...)
Elli
Elli
Elliott
(The
Rev. Susan M. Elliott, Ph.D.)
Minister for Faith and Learning, Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota Ph.D., New Testament and Early Christianity, Loyola University Chicago personal
e-mail: elli AT visi.com
Plymouth-related e-mail: elli AT plymouth.org |
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Re: [Corpus-Paul] Gal 5:12,
Elli Elliott, 01/01/2004
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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Re: [Corpus-Paul] Gal 5:12,
nanosmd, 01/01/2004
- RE: [Corpus-Paul] Gal 5:12, David C. Hindley, 01/01/2004
- Re: [Corpus-Paul] Gal 5:12, Jim West, 01/01/2004
- Re: [Corpus-Paul] Gal 5:12, nanosmd, 01/01/2004
- Re: [Corpus-Paul] Gal 5:12, Jim West, 01/01/2004
- Re: [Corpus-Paul] Gal 5:12, Edgar & Becky Krentz, 01/01/2004
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RE: [Corpus-Paul] Gal 5:12,
nanosmd, 01/01/2004
- Re: [Corpus-Paul] Gal 5:12, Elli Elliott, 01/01/2004
- RE: [Corpus-Paul] Gal 5:12, David C. Hindley, 01/01/2004
- Re: [Corpus-Paul] Gal 5:12, Jim West, 01/01/2004
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