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Cutting Too Close for Comfort

Paul's Letter to the Galatians in Its Anatolian Cultic Context

by Susan M. Elliott

  • Paperback
  • 412 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • 15.5 x 22.9 x 2.6 cm

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In Cutting Too Close for Comfort, Susan Elliot considers Paul's letter to the Galatians in its Anatolian cultic context. What does circumcision have to do with castration? Self-castrated devotees of the Mother of the Gods travelled in the central Anatolian territory where the audience of Paul's letter to the Galatians lived. The goddess was identified with many of the region's mountains. In a goddess-possessed frenzy, these galli castrated themselves and became lifetime cultic representatives as her slaves. Cutting Too Close For Comfort offers a thick description of this cult and other aspects of the Anatolian cultic context to provide solutions to several persistent puzzles in the letter. Starting with problems in the so-called "Hagar and Sarah" passage (4.21-5.1), Elliot argues that Paul attempts to dissuade his audience from being circumcised by identifying circumcision with the enslaving self-castration of the galli and by portraying the Law as a Mountain Mother. The Anatolian background is also seen in Paul's Flesh-Spirit dichotomy in Gal. 3.1-5 and in the Two Ways form in Galatians 5-6.
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  • Author

    Susan M. Elliott

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

  • Published

    April 2008

  • Weight

    577g

  • Page Count

    412

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 22.9 x 2.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780567034359

  • ISBN-10

    0567034356

  • Eden Code

    1226251

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