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I.  Study/Homework Questions for Johnson Lectures:  Galatians

 

1.         According to Johnson, why is Paul’s language so emotional in Galatians?

 

 

2.         What is midrash and who practiced it?

 

 

3.         According to Johnson, what can be known about the date, the location, and Paul’s opponents in Galatians?

 

 

4.         What is the word “Abba” and why is it significant?

 

 

 

5.         What is the significance and meaning of circumcision?

 

 

 

6.         What are some of the religious and/or sociological motivations that might lead someone to desire circumcision?

 

 

7.         How and/or why does circumcision challenge the adequacy of Christian baptism?

 

 

 

8.         According to Johnson, how has the Greek expression pistis Christou ("faith in/of Christ") been mistranslated? What translation does he prefer?

 

 

 

9.         According to Johnson, how does circumcision challenge the “egalitarian” character of the church?

 

 

 

10.       According to Johnson, what is not the main point of the autobiographical material in the first two chapters of Galatians? What is the main point?