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Cutting too close for comfort :

Elliott, Susan

Cutting too close for comfort : Paul's letter to the Galatians in its Anatolian cultic context / Susan Elliott. - London ; London : T & T Clark International, c2003. - xv, 391 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement series ; 248 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [358]-377) and indexes.

Everyone but the audience --$g Part I. Galatian problems. --$t Law as a slave-concubine mountain -- Law an an enslaving figure: Galatians 3.19-4.11 --$g Part II. Central Anatolian religious context. --$t Divine judicial system -- Our mother, our place -- Attis and the mother --$t Galli: the mother's slaves --$g Part III. Paul persuades his Anatolian audience to oppose circumcision. -- Rhetorical situation revisted: circumcision and castration --$t Hagar, the meter sinaiene: Galatians 4.21-5.1 as a triple analogy -- Two ways and the unity of Galatians --$t Flesh and spirit in Galatians 3.1-5.

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