caa a22 4500 386361932 CHVBK 20180307111918.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198901 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0028688500024474 doi S0028688500024474 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0028688500024474 Smit Joop Utrecht, The Netherlands The Letter of Paul to the Galatians: a Deliberative Speech [Elektronische Daten] [Joop Smit] This study's point of departure is the important article of H. D. Betz, ‘The literary composition and function of Paul's letter to the Galatians', published in this journal in 1975. In that article the author suggests a new approach to the letter to the Galatians, by using the generative rules of Graeco-Roman rhetoric to analyse the structure of the letter. A rigorous examination leads him to the conclusion that the form of the various parts and the order in which they are arranged completely conform to the classical rules of rhetoric for a judicial speech (genus iudiciale). Paul is under accusation by opponents. The Galatians play the role of judges. The letter contains a speech in which Paul, following all the rules of the art, defends himself before the jury. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 New Testament Studies Cambridge University Press 35/1(1989-01), 1-26 0028-6885 35:1<1 1989 35 NTS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0028688500024474 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0028688500024474 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Smit Joop Utrecht, The Netherlands NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Testament Studies Cambridge University Press 35/1(1989-01), 1-26 0028-6885 35:1<1 1989 35 NTS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge