The epideictic dimension of Galatians as formative rhetoric: The inscription of early Christian community

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Article

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12-1-2000

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Modern rhetorical theory suggests that epideictic creates and sustains values by addressing issues of legitimacy, inclusion, exclusion, and virtue. By focusing on the epideictic dimension in Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, this paper explores Paul's efforts to form an emerging Christian community that at once identified with its Judaic roots and yet dissociated itself from a conservative sect of Jewish Christians, who were attempting to colonize the young Galatian churches. © Copyright 2000, The International Society for the History of Rhetoric.

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Rhetorica - Journal of the History of Rhetoric

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