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Ausgabe:

Oktober/2021

Spalte:

920–922

Kategorie:

Neues Testament

Autor/Hrsg.:

Martin, Neil

Titel/Untertitel:

Regression in Galatians. Paul and the Gentile Response to Jewish Law.

Verlag:

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2020. XIV, 306 S. = Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe, 530. Kart. EUR 84,00. ISBN 9783161597626.

Rezensent:

Karl Olav Sandnes

This slightly-revised dissertation from Oxford was supervised by Professor Markus Boeckmuehl. It addresses what is probably the most burning issue in Pauline scholarship: Paul’s critique of the Jewish law. Point of departure is Paul’s fierce dictum in Gal 4: 8–11: »Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods […] How can you want to be en-slaved to them again?« (cf. 5:1). This passage gives the diagnosis of the addressees in regression language. Paul is concerned that the Galatians will turn back to embrace their pagan past. The regression language in Galatians is intertwined in the threat of the influencers, as Martin labels the often-called opponents in this epistle. A strange tandem then appears, on the one hand influencers with ...


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