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iskander wrote:I was talking to Clive , when you rudely interrupted.

What happened to common courtesy? I simply requested that you take your discussion to a new thread, since the discussion was veering well away the topic of this thread --- Paul's Galatians.

BTW, the short essay is the OP.

I have no interest in continuing this discussion with you iskander.

From the OP --- But what a nice little divine, nuclear family the Galatian congregation may have assembled ... It seems a pretty safe bet that the Galatian Celts, after they migrated into Asia Minor, incorporated into their pantheon the great Anatolian mother goddess of the indigenous Phyrigians. At...

If you want to continue your discussion of Mary the mother of Jesus from the synoptic gospels, or later "Mariology", perhaps you could take it to new thread. This thread has virtually nothing to do with that mother. The mother in this topic was mentioned in the OP in the context of a pagan...

I wrote the short essay in the OP with tongue just slightly in-cheek. After reading this short yet very informative article with the link below, I believe I can remove the tongue from my cheek entirely. Here’s an excerpt from near the end of the article providing significant support for my musings -...

Paul's dependence on Philo: "There are two types of men; the one a heavenly man , the other an earthly . The heavenly man, being made after the image of God , is altogether without part or lot in corruptible and terrestrial substance; but the earthly one was compacted out of the matter scatter...

Did Paul Need Philo? Little support is to be found among scholars for a direct dependence of Paul on Philo. Could it be that the two contemporary Jews --- Paul and Philo --- exhibit some similarities only because they both had the same set of scriptures to use in their allegorical interpretations? C...

Some of us figured it out before the thread even started . i.e. The man whose name is East is a royal figure not a priestly figure i.e. he is distinct from Jesus/Joshua the high priest. Andrew’s comment here was from another thread (as Peter noted) --- another thread with a topic distinctly differe...

I’m not sure if this has been posted somewhere in the 77 pages of this thread so far, but here’s Justin Martyr’s take --- Justin: [The Scripture], speaking by David about this Christ, my friends, said no longer that 'in His seed' the nations should be blessed, but 'in Him.' (Psalms 72:17) So it is h...

http://hypotyposeis.org/weblog/category/paul From this site --- "The creator of Hypotyposeis is Stephen C. Carlson (Ph.D., Duke University). Hypotyposeis‘s featured guest blogger is Andrew Criddle." Scroll down to --- The Hermeneutical Key to Reading Paul Posted by Stephen C. Carlson on Oc...