Galatians 6:17 and its Reception History: Assessing the Echoes
Galatians 6:17 and its Reception History: Assessing the Echoes

Summary/Abstract: The essays in this collection began as a panel discussion at 2022 Canadian Society of Patristic Studies under the topic, “Trauma and Therapeia in Early Christian Literature”. Panelists discussed examples of Patristic interpretation of Paul’s statement in Galatians 6:17 that he bore the marks (stigmata) of Jesus on his own body. I estimate that Gal 6:17 (and indeed the entire letter of Galatians) should be understood within a context of violence, slavery and trauma. I was curious to see how that context was understood and interpreted by later commentators. The panel considered aspects of the Patristic reception history of Gal 6:17. The essays which follow are the fruit of that discussion

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