Galatians
Home > New Testament > Galatians Galatians At a Glance Letter Genre: (5/5) ***** Reliability of Dating: (2/5) ** Length of Text: Greek Original Language: Ancient Translations: Modern Translations: English Estimated Range of Dating: 50-60 A.D. Chronological List of Early Christian Writings Discuss this text on the Early Writings forum. Text American Standard Version King James Version World English Bible Resources e-Catena: References to the New Testament in the Church Fathers Patristic References to Galatians, Chapters 1 2 3 4 5 6 Edgar Goodspeed: The Letter to the Galatians Catholic Encyclopedia: Galatians Offsite Links Perseus NT (English/Greek/Latin) Christ Has Made Us Free: An EasyEnglish Commentary Continue to Believe the Truth: An EasyEnglish Commentary NAB Introduction Daniel Wallace's Introduction IVP Commentary The Spuriousness of So-called Pauline Epistles Exemplified by the Epistle to the Galatians The Non-Pauline Origin of the Parallelism of the Apostles Peter and Paul The Plot of Galatians 3:1-18 (PDF) The Right Things You Want to Do: A Note on Galatians 5,17d Peace and Mercy Upon the Israel of God: The Old Testament Background of Galatians 6,16b The Possibility of Perfect Obedience: Paul and An Implied Premise in Galatians 3:10 and 5:3 Books Burton L.
Mack, Who Wrote the New Testament? : The Making of the Christian Myth (San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins, 1996), pp. 113-121. Raymond Edward Brown, An Introduction to the New Testament (New York: Doubleday, 1997), pp. 467-482. Udo Schnelle, translated by M. Eugene Boring, The History and Theology of the New Testament Writings (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998), pp. 93-107. J. Louis Martyn, ed., Galatians : A New Translation With Introduction and Commentary (Doubleday 1998) Recommended Books for the Study of Early Christian Writings Information on Galatians Galatians is one of the four letters of Paul known as the Hauptbriefe, which are universally accepted as authentic. It is typically dated c.
54 CE. There is an old debate as to whether Paul's letter was directed to northern Galatia, where the ethnic Galatians lived, or to southern part of the Galatian province, where cities such as Iconium are located. Raymond E. Brown states that the arguments for the northern theory "seem more persuasive" (An Introduction, p. 476). Udo Schnelle writes (The History and Theology, p. 97): "On the whole the arguments for the north Galatian hypothesis are stronger. In particular, the absence of the addressees in Gal. 1.21, the Lucan statement about Paul's work in 'the region of . . . Galatia' and the address in Gal. 3.1, along with the well thought out arrangement of the letter as a whole, speak against the south Galatian theory." The epistle to the Galatians shows Paul in conflict with other missionaries.
Jewish-Christians from Palestine had visited the congregations of the Galatians after Paul's visit there and taught that Paul's Gospel was incomplete. They persuaded some of the Galatians that salvation required observance of the Torah laws, including circumcision. Paul writes to rebuke and to persuade the Galatians in this letter. Indeed, the letter follows the outline of a Greco-Roman apologetic letter (The History and Theology, p. 99): prescript (1:1-5), introduction (1:6-11), narrative (1:12-2:14), proposition (2:15-21), proof (3:1-4:31), exhortation (5:1-6:10), and conclusion (6:11-18). But this is not to say that the argument for justification of faith in Galatians is cut-and-dry; far from it, Paul's epistle to the Galatians is full of passion, anger, and drama.
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