Galatians - Paperback

by Jarvis J. Williams (Author)

Jarvis Williams' commentary on Galatians is a commentary of one of Paul's most rhetorically charged and polemically sharp letters. Williams writes a commentary of the letter, not a commentary of commentaries. He grounds the letter in grammatical-historical exegesis, seeking to help readers understand Paul's Greco-Roman and Second Temple Jewish context of the letter. Additionally, the book seeks to move from exegesis to application in a few places in the commentary. The strength of the commentary is that it offers a lucid and concise exegesis grounded in Paul's first century context and applicable for twenty-first century readers.

Author Biography

Jarvis J. Williams is an Associate Professor of New Testament Interpretation at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He's published numerous academic monographs and scholarly articles and essays on Paul's soteriology (broadly defined) in Romans and Galatians in its Second Temple Jewish context. Williams's research focuses on soteriology in Second Temple Judaism, the Second Temple context of Paul's soteriology, and Romans, Galatians, and Ephesians. He's a member of the Society of Biblical Literature.