In the Epistle to the Galatians, Paul directly addresses only the Galatian churches; through them, however, he is engaged in a polemic against rival missionaries who had influenced the churches with another gospel. If one intends to analyze Paul's argumentation in Galatians 1–2, it is necessary first to ask about the characteristics of these missionaries and their gospel. In the history of research, many different pictures of the opponents and their gospel have been drawn. These reconstructions result partly from the method of so-called mirror reading; this method infers the position of the opponents by reversing the negations and affirmations in Paul's argumentation. Recently and with good reason this method has been criticized. In my analysis I confine myself to what can be said with certainty about the opponents: First, the opponents shared with Paul the belief in Jesus as the messiah; otherwise Paul could not have termed their message a “gospel” (Gal 1:6). Second, for the opponents the gospel of Paul was incomplete, because it lacked part of the commandments of the covenant, particularly the commandment of circumcision as a prerequisite for full membership among the people of God (Gal 5:3–4; 6:12–13). Although Paul himself did not mention it, we can safely assume that on this point the opponents referred to scripture. Gen 17:10–11, for example, states clearly that without circumcision no one can be a member of the covenant.
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eBook PDF 99,00 € ISBN 978-3-16-147849-9 Leinen 109,00 € Johan S. Vos stellt den Apostel Paulus als einen Meister in der 'Kunst, recht zu behalten', bzw. in der Kunst, »die schwächere Rede zur stärkeren zu machen« dar. Das erste Kapitel des Bandes ist der 'Kunst, recht zu behalten' in der klassischen rhetorischen Tradition gewidmet. Insbesondere werden sophistische Rhetorik, Wahrheit und Parteiinteresse in der forensischen Rhetorik und Kriegsrhetorik sowie die antiken Kriterien zur Unterscheidung von redlicher und unredlicher Argumentation behandelt. Daraufhin untersucht der Autor anhand ausgewählter Texte aus den Hauptbriefen des Paulus, inwieweit die argumentativen Mittel des Apostels im Rahmen der profanen Kunst, 'recht zu behalten', zu verstehen sind. Obwohl Paulus selbst weltliche Weisheit und Beredsamkeit ablehnt, kann man feststellen, daß er genau dieselben Mittel verwendet wie ein zeitgenössischer Anwalt vor Gericht. Auch benutzt er Strategien, die in den militärischen Handbüchern als 'Kriegslisten' bezeichnet werden, und nach antiken Kriterien gemessen, können manche seiner Argumente als 'sophistisch' bezeichnet werden. Fünf Kapitel des Buches sind revidierte Fassungen schon früher erschienener Studien von Johan S. Vos, zwei Kapitel werden hier zum ersten Mal verö entlicht.
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