Paul's Gentile Mission and the Jewish Christian Community:A Study of the Narrative in Galatians 1 and 2

Abstract

Paul's autobiographical notes in Gal 1.11–2.21 have long attracted considerable attention because of their rather sensational portrayal. The dramatic picture of a stubbornly independent Paul marching determinedly into the Jewish capital to ‘have it out’ with the Jerusalem apostles, or the spectacle of two great church leaders raising the dust in Antioch certainly excites the imagination. Yet the work of the exegete begins not with the reconstruction of the events themselves, but with the question of the literary purpose behind Paul's tendentious representation of the facts. And it is to this end that we would like to re-examine briefly the Pauline narrative.

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