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from Part II - Sarcasm in Paul’s Letters
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2022
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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