Galatians

Understanding the New Testament through language use in everyday life at the time lies at the heart of the PKNT series. The chapters of this volume contain new insights into passages and themes from Paul's Letter to the Galatians by situating them in the context of documentary papyri, ostraca, and tablets. The contributions explore the letter format and epistolary formulas, family terminology, Paul's opponents, Jews and Jewishness, curses and magical metaphors, the revocation of wills, inheritance, the adoption of slaves, as well as the deeper meaning of Paul's "birth pangs," the "proscribed Christ," and the "burden of love." Some notes on the material features of the papyri and parchments preserving Galatians conclude the volume. The appendix provides a glossary of terms frequently used in ancient administration, trade, and agriculture, as well as indexes of papyrological sources, passages of Galatians, and Greek terms including references to earlier volumes of PKNT.

Cornelia Mayer is a Philosophy PhD candidate at Columbia University, specializing in Philosophy of Language. Before joining Columbia in 2022, she completed her BA and MA at University of Salzburg. She is a member of the American Philosophical Association (APA).

Peter Arzt-Grabner is Associate Professor of Papyrology at the University of Salzburg, Austria (up to his retirement in 2024).

His most important publications focus on the textual criticism of the New Testament and the interpretation of New Testament texts with the help of documentary papyri from the Greco-Roman period. He is also the managing editor of "Papyri and the New Testament."

Peter Arzt-Grabner is member of:

Association Internationale de Papyrologues (AIP)

Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS)

Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)

American Society of Papyrologists (ASP)