Synopsis: Reading Scripture with a view to hearing its significance
and challenge within its original, foreign context is the essence
of exegesis and an anchor point for responsible hermeneutics.
Reading Scripture alongside others from a significantly different
social location also helps us see fresh aspects of the meaning of
the text itself, as well as fresh angles on its challenge to
Christian discipleship. This innovative commentary by respected New
Testament scholar David deSilva is grounded in both approaches: a
careful exegesis of Galatians as a basis for discerning the
challenge of Scripture in any social location; and a reading of
Galatians from the viewpoint of the challenges to living out its
message among the churches in Sri Lanka, the result of extensive
interaction with Christian leaders in Sri Lanka. Seeing the text
afresh from within its ancient context and a different, modern
social location will challenge readers in the West to consider once
more Paul's message of transformation through the Spirit, with
implications for Western Christians in their own context and in the
larger global matrix of the Church universal. Endorsements: "True
to the spirit of Paul, David deSilva, in his creative work Global
Readings, allows the Christian church to relive Paul's theology in
his Letter to the Galatians and to participate in the challenges
faced by the Sri Lankan church today. David's bold move in the
'Reading with Sri Lankan Christians' sections of the commentary
allows the ancient text to speak across space and time--a sacred
task of an apostle." -K. K. Yeo author of The Spirit Hovers:
Journeying through Chaos with Prayers "DeSilva's commentary on
Galatians reflects engagement with Galatians scholarship yet
remains easy for readers to use. It also reflects both careful
consideration of the various historical issues in Galatians and
also (albeit less extensively) explicit sensitivity to concrete
readings of the text that supplement the usual Western
applications." -Craig Keener author of Romans in the New Covenant
Commentary Series "The 'miracle' of biblical hermeneutics is that
Christians around the world understand passages of the Bible
differently, yet at the same time manage, without equivocation, to
affirm the same gospel. David deSilva shows us one example of this
by reporting on his engagement with Sri Lankan Bible students in
understanding the book of Galatians. It is a brilliant model of
learning from one another and at the same time standing together in
the affirmation of scriptural truth." -Terry C. Muck coauthor of
Christianity Encountering World Religions: The Practice of Mission
in the Twenty-First Century. Author Biography: David A. deSilva is
Trustees' Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Greek at
Ashland Theological Seminary and an ordained minister in the
Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church. He is the author
of numerous books, including Seeing Things John's Way: The Rhetoric
of the Book of Revelation (2009), An Introduction to the New
Testament: Contexts, Methods & Ministry Formation (2004), and
Introducing the Apocrypha (2002).
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