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In Cutting Too Close for Comfort, Susan Elliot considers Paul's
letter to the Galatians in its Anatolian cultic context. What does
circumcision have to do with castration? Self-castrated devotees of
the Mother of the Gods travelled in the central Anatolian territory
where the audience of Paul's letter to the Galatians lived. The
goddess was identified with many of the region's mountains. In a
goddess-possessed frenzy, these galli castrated themselves and
became lifetime cultic representatives as her slaves. Cutting Too
Close For Comfort offers a thick description of this cult and other
aspects of the Anatolian cultic context to provide solutions to
several persistent puzzles in the letter. Starting with problems in
the so-called "Hagar and Sarah" passage (4.21-5.1), Elliot argues
that Paul attempts to dissuade his audience from being circumcised
by identifying circumcision with the enslaving self-castration of
the galli and by portraying the Law as a Mountain Mother. The
Anatolian background is also seen in Paul's Flesh-Spirit dichotomy
in Gal. 3.1-5 and in the Two Ways form in Galatians 5-6.
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