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Without recognizing chiasm in Scripture there will unfortunately be interpretations that are misleading at best and sometimes incorrect. We will explore Paul’s second chiasm which instructs us how to find true life in Christ.

There is no way to understand Paul’s words that seem to replace the seed of Abraham with a singular seed that is Christ without an understanding of Hebrew, which will be the discussion in this podcast.

We will continue to address the second midrash in Paul’s letter to the Galatians. which speaks of “the curse of the law”. My heart grieves to think of all the teaching that is based on a literal interpretation. Paul’s meaning is in the midrash!

We will continue to address Paul’s second midrash in Galatians, which he presents in a chiastic construction. To understand why Paul refers to “the curse of the law”, we must first perceive the chiasm. We will learn in the next podcast that the Law is not a curse!

In his second midrash in his letter to the Galatians the apostle Paul uses the term “curse of the law”.  However, he does not mean that the law is a curse! This podcast is an introduction to this midrash on the curse of the law.

In Galatians 3:6-9, Paul cites from the Hebrew scriptures and follows it with a conclusion two times. The conclusions are almost identical and we can see that both of his citations are about Abraham but there must be something more that connects these verses that makes them conceptually similar in order to generate a legal conclusion that Paul declares twice.

Midrash was in use in the second temple period, which includes the writings of Paul. They were methods of ancient exegesis that uncovered previously hidden meaning from the Hebrew Scriptures. Are you ready to hear something that challenges your previous beliefs?

Paul commonly used the artistic patterns of the Hebrew language that can help us find deeper meaning in his letters. Dr. Davis introduces the 4 steps to decode the patterns used by the apostle Paul whenever he says something puzzling.

In modern times, Paul's words in Galatians 2 have been taken literally. Dr. Anne Davis gives evidence that he is speaking with sarcasm, which was acceptable during heated debates in ancient times. How does this change the message written in Galatians 2 and how does that challenge our own traditions?

Dr. Davis takes a look into Paul's methods of persuasion: he used both Greco-Roman rhetoric and the artistic use of patterns in the Hebrew language. What did Paul really mean when he used the phrase "Works of the Law" in Galatians 2?