Leading New Testament scholar Craig Keener is widely respected for his thorough research, sound judgments, and knowledge of ancient sources. His four-volume magnum opus on Acts has received high praise from all quarters. This commentary on Paul's Letter to the Galatians features Keener's meticulous and comprehensive research and offers a wealth of fresh insights. It will benefit students, pastors, and church leaders alike.
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Leading New Testament scholar Craig Keener is widely respected for his thorough research, sound judgments, and knowledge of ancient sources. His four-volume magnum opus on Acts has received high praise from all quarters. This commentary on Paul's Letter to the Galatians features Keener's meticulous and comprehensive research and offers a wealth of fresh insights. It will benefit students, pastors, and church leaders alike.
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You can read my fuller review at Spoiled Milks (23/8/19).
Keener believes the author is Paul, the letter was (likely) sent from Antioch, written after the Jerusalem Council of Acts 15, to South Galatians who were predominantly gentiles not yet circumcised. The south "was far more populated in the first century" than the north was (20). More Jews lived in the south as well, making their presence felt on the Galatian church. The opponents likely did not come from communities Paul started, but claimed "more direct links to Jerusalem" (26).
Gal 2:16: "works of the law" do refer to the entire law, but the issues in play are those which specifically defined someone as Jewish, and that features most prominently in Galatians as circumcision (188).
Gal 5:25: "Living by the Spirit is equivalent to Christ living in and through believers (2:20) and thus living to God (2:19)" (526). Yet people of the Spirit can still stumble and be deceived by the unreasonable.
Gal 6:16: Who is "God's Israel"? Those who believe in Christ. This includes believing Jews and the believing gentiles who have been grafted onto the "single eschatological people of God," historic Israel (581).
Keener gives 34 excursuses (A Closer Look) throughout his commentary based on key terms and ideas in Galatians. Cutting to the chase, these are full and just what you would expect from Keener.
Keener also adds some Bridging Horizons sections throughout the commentary. Sometimes they are about God's giftings, or how we (and the apostles) aren't perfect, incivility and culture, union with Christ, Gal 3:28 and barriers of culture, status, and gender. Though few, they help get your practical gears turning.
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Keener's commentary drips with erudition. How one can have the time to read so much, process it all, and to remember it is beyond me. Yet I am thankful for God's gift in Keener, and for Keener's diligence in wanting to know God through his word. This commentary is certainly for the academic and the teacher. The student could certainly make good use of this as well as the pastor (though the pastor may want to defer to the shorter volume).
