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Article: Recovering Paul's Mother Tongue: Language and Theology in Galatians.(Book review)
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- March 1, 2009
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RECOVERING PAUL'S MOTHER TONGUE: LANGUAGE AND THEOLOGY IN GALATIANS. By Susan Eastman. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2007. Pp. xiv + 206. $25.
Why would Paul, a Jewish man of the first century CE, cast himself as a mother, a woman in labor, and as a midwife? Eastman takes up the maternal images and their dramatic effect as found in Galatians, draws on the work of Janet Martin Soskice, I. A. Richards, and on the language theory of Ursula Le Guin (7-8)--the last defining three different kinds of communication: the "father tongue" of power and getting things done (public discourse); the "mother tongue" of relationships and personal experience (mostly private ...