{"title":"Reviews on Pauline Commentaries from 2011 to 2012","authors":"Nijay K. Gupta","doi":"10.2307/jstudpaullett.2.1.0060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/jstudpaullett.2.1.0060","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29841,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68865679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Davidic Messiahship in Galatians: Clearing the Deck for a Study of the Theme in Galatians","authors":"J. Willitts","doi":"10.2307/jstudpaullett.2.2.0143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/jstudpaullett.2.2.0143","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a fresh proposal for the active presence of Davidic messiahship in Paul's arguments in Galatians. The consensus in Pauline scholarship over the last half century on the question of the meaning of “Christ” in Paul has been bulletproof. With only the rare exception, Paul scholars have concluded that “Christ” in Paul is equivalent to Jesus' surname and carries little-to-no significance in Paul's theologizing. This article tackles this scholarly assumption by reviewing the recent book by Matthew V. Novenson, who argues vigorously against the conventional view. Novenson's work makes a significant contribution to Pauline studies because it unmasks the weaknesses of the grammatical arguments that have supported the consensus reading for 50 years. After offering a friendly amendment to Novenson's argument about “Christ” in Paul that takes his major conclusion further, I present a proposal for Davidic messianship in Galatians. Finally, I include a brief exegesis of Gal 1:1-4 as a case study for reading Galatians from a Davidic point of view.","PeriodicalId":29841,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68866047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review Article: Two Recent Galatians Commentaries","authors":"Roy E. Ciampa","doi":"10.2307/jstudpaullett.2.2.0181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/jstudpaullett.2.2.0181","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29841,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68866190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Nature of Salvation History in Galatians","authors":"J. Maston","doi":"10.2307/jstudpaullett.2.2.0089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/jstudpaullett.2.2.0089","url":null,"abstract":"According to some scholars, Paul's development of an “apocalyptic” theology in Galatians results in a denial of salvation history. Contrary to these claims, this article contends that Paul develops a salvation-historical argument in Galatians 3:15–4:7. Paul, however, does not present God's acts as a linear history of positive redemptive acts. Rather, in light of God's act in Christ, Paul develops a different understanding of salvation history in which the period of the Torah is identified as a period of Unheil. The nature of salvation history in Galatians, therefore, has a strong element of discontinuity.","PeriodicalId":29841,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68865404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Once upon a Time”: Galatians as an Apocalyptic Story","authors":"Todd D. Still","doi":"10.2307/jstudpaullett.2.2.0133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/jstudpaullett.2.2.0133","url":null,"abstract":"Is it possible to combine narratival and apocalyptic readings of Paul in general and Galatians in particular? The answer offered in this essay is a nuanced yes. I will follow trails blazed by J. Louis Martyn and Richard B. Hays in examining aspects of both “historical continuity”/“horizontal linearity” and “apocalyptic discontinuity”/“vertical disruption” in the apostle's fiery communiqué ταĩϛ ἐκκλησίαιϛ τῆϛ Γαλατίαϛ. I begin by scouring the letter along temporal lines before turning to consider, with the aid of French semiotician A. J. Greimas as mediated by Hays, the timely/timeless story set forth in the letter's weighty lines.","PeriodicalId":29841,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68865663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“It Has Been Brought to Completion”: Leviticus 19:18 as Christological Witness in Galatians 5:14","authors":"Michael K. W. Suh","doi":"10.2307/jstudpaullett.2.2.0115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/jstudpaullett.2.2.0115","url":null,"abstract":"Paul's quotation of Lev 19:18 in Gal 5:14 is a curious appeal to the law at this point in the letter. Furthermore, his curious use of the perfect-passive verb πεπλήρωται to signal his citation of the Jewish Scriptures must be fully accounted for in order to understand Paul's view of the Torah in this section of Galatians. I will show that an intertextual reading of Gal 5:14 and Lev 19:18 can settle some of the interpretive issues in a coherent and satisfactory way. The hypothesis I propose is that Paul's quotation of Lev 19:18 resonates with the larger context of Lev 19, a text that asserts that the commandments of God are vitally connected with Yhwh himself. This resonance, in dialogue with the context of Gal 5:14, creates an intertextual space, whereby the identity of Jesus described by Paul in Galatians is parallel to the identity of Yhwh described in Leviticus. Therefore, Paul's use of πληρόω in Gal 5:14, followed by his citation of Lev 19:18, is his method of using Scripture as a dramatic witness to the person of Jesus Christ.","PeriodicalId":29841,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68865592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reviews on Pauline Commentaries from 2011 to 2012","authors":"Nijay K. Gupta","doi":"10.2307/26426469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/26426469","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29841,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68478499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Salvation History in Galatians and the Making of a Pauline Discourse","authors":"B. Longenecker","doi":"10.2307/jstudpaullett.2.2.0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/jstudpaullett.2.2.0065","url":null,"abstract":"In Paul's Galatian letter, are Gentile Jesus-followers depicted as participating in the ongoing salvation history of the Jewish people? Does the model of ingrafting that Paul employs in his olive tree analogy of Rom 11 undergird Paul's theological discourse in Galatians? This essay (1) overviews the contemporary debate, (2) outlines relevant data from 1 Thessalonians to Romans as a backdrop against which to consider the Galatian letter, and (3) investigates key passages in Paul's letter to Galatian Jesus-followers in a nuanced proposal concerning the salvation-historical dimensions of that letter. Finally, (4) I propose a 13-point reconstruction concerning fluctuations in Paul's salvation-historical discourse between the years 50 (1 Thessalonians) and 57 (Romans).","PeriodicalId":29841,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68865300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Salvation History in Galatians? A Response to Bruce W. Longenecker and Jason Maston","authors":"M. C. De Boer","doi":"10.2307/jstudpaullett.2.2.0105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/jstudpaullett.2.2.0105","url":null,"abstract":"Bruce W. Longenecker and Jaston Maston both propose that Paul's letter to the Galatians contains salvation history but they disagree markedly about its nature. Given the ambiguity of Paul's language, particularly in his use of the first-person plural (whether as pronoun or as verbal suffix), Longenecker's proposal represents a possible reading of Paul's letter. Questions may, however, be raised about Longenecker's exegesis of passages used to support the proposal. Maston's proposal that the period of the law was a period of Unheil makes his use of the term salvation history to describe this period highly problematic. Questions may also be raised with respect to the exegesis of specific texts. Given his rhetorical agenda, the Paul of Galatians has no interest or stake whatsoever in explicitly (or even implicitly) attributing the origin of the law to God. For the same reason, he is also not interested in articulating a notion or theory of salvation history with respect to the people of the law, Israel. That issue falls beyond the purview of Paul's argument in Galatians.","PeriodicalId":29841,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68865511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Romans 8:29–30 as a Non-Pauline Interpolation","authors":"W. Walker","doi":"10.2307/jstudpaullett.2.1.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/jstudpaullett.2.1.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29841,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68865366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}