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4 - Sarcasm in Galatians

from Part II - Sarcasm in Paul’s Letters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2022

Matthew Pawlak
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Luxembourg School of Religion & Society
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This chapter weighs the evidence for sarcasm in Paul’s expression of astonishment (thaumazō hoti) in the opening of Galatians (1:6), which some scholars have considered an epistolary convention for expressing ‘ironic rebuke’. I then discuss whether the epithets that Paul uses to refer to the ‘pillar’ apostles in Gal 2:2, 6, and 9 can be classified as sarcastic and how their use serves Paul’s rhetorical aims across the autobiographical section of Galatians, before pushing back on a common misidentification of sarcasm in Gal 5:12.

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Print publication year: 2022

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  • Sarcasm in Galatians
  • Matthew Pawlak, Luxembourg School of Religion & Society
  • Book: Sarcasm in Paul’s Letters
  • Online publication: 15 December 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009271929.008
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  • Matthew Pawlak, Luxembourg School of Religion & Society
  • Book: Sarcasm in Paul’s Letters
  • Online publication: 15 December 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009271929.008
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  • Sarcasm in Galatians
  • Matthew Pawlak, Luxembourg School of Religion & Society
  • Book: Sarcasm in Paul’s Letters
  • Online publication: 15 December 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009271929.008
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