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Document Details : Title: Gal 3,28 and its Alleged Relationship to Rabbinic Writings Author(s): UZUKWU, Gesila Nneka Journal: Biblica Volume: 91 Issue: 3 Date: 2010 Pages: 370-392 DOI: 10.2143/BIB.91.3.3188872 Abstract : Scholars have suggested that Gal 3,28 is comparable to similar sayings found in rabbinic writings, and that the latter can help in interpreting and understanding the meaning and theology of Gal 3,28. In this study we have analysed and compared the alleged similar sayings found in Jewish texts and Gal 3,28 in order to demonstrate that Gal 3,28 is neither literally nor thematically related to the former, and we should not allow the alleged similar sayings found in rabbinic writings to influence our reading of Gal 3,28. Both texts reflect the conceptual uses of pairs of opposites in the Greco-Roman tradition, but at the same time, their subsequent usages or occurrences in Jewish and Christian texts came into being independently from one another. |
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