Article: Recovering Paul's Mother Tongue: Language and Theology in Galatians

SUSAN EASTMAN, Recovering Paul's Mother Tongue: Language and Theology in Galatians (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007). Pp. xiv + 206. Paper $25.

Eastman offers "a study of the working relationship between Paul's language and his theology as enacted in the practice of his apostolic ministry" (p. x). Her sustained appreciation for and explication of Paul's language in Galatians becomes a way for her to speak about his "theology." Developing the claim of Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Our Mother Saint Paul [Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007]) that Paul uses maternal imagery to describe his converts' growth and sustenance in the faith (p. 10), E. analyzes how the maternal metaphors in Gal 4:12-5:1 ...

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