Here. This is Tom Wright. You disagree with him and… whew… I wouldn’t want to be you in December.
I think it is Paul’s second letter, by the way.
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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Wright, as usual, shows us what contemplative scholarship of the highest caliber both looks like and produces…competence and excellence. Looking forward to the new addition.
FWIW, I think there is a good case that Galatians is the first letter of Paul’s epistolary works. Anyways, definitely not in the middle part of his hauptbriefen.
I believe Galatians was written in the summer of 50 A.D. from Antioch (Acts 15:38-39)
1 Thessalionians was written a year later in the Autumn of 51 from Corinth (Acts 18:1)
This was my dissertation…
I still see Paul, in 1 Thess, as less dogmatic. In Galatians he is challenged, and thus he has to develop his doctrine.