The sign of the apostle: Galatians 1-2 and the poetics of colonization
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Abstract
This dissertation argues that the apostle Paul represents Jesus as the founding hero of the Galatian churches, through whose death the Galatians enter into the inheritance of Abraham and obtain protection from the curse of the law.It draws on the typology of Greek founder cult and the poetics of colonization in order to establish the salient features of hero stories and founder cult, then shows through exegesis and comparison how Galatians reflects those features."Poetics" refers to certain shared and idealised practices of remembrance that are grounded in broader traditions and rituals, specifically the traditions and rituals associated with the ancient, ongoing practice of worshipping heroes, commonly known as hero cult, and the closely related practice of honouring civic founders, also called founder cult.The death of the founder plays a critical role in ancient Greek colonization stories, both by marking the independence of the colony from the mother city and by linking the citizens of the newly independent city to the past through the cyclical performance of rituals established by or for the founder.In Galatians 1-2 Paul represents himself as a tomb-that-signifies Jesus and a sign for the Galatians to read. RsumCette thse soutient que le rcit autobiographique de l'aptre Paul dans Galates 1-2 s'appuie sur la mme potique ancienne de la colonization qui influence l'histoire de Tlepolemos, le fondateur de Rhodes, comme racont dans la Septime ode olympique de Pindare.Potique se rfre certaines pratiques partages et idalises du souvenir qui sont ancres dans les traditions et les rituels plus larges- savoir, les traditions et les rituels associs la pratique ancienne et constante d'adorer les hros, aussi connue comme le culte de hro, et la pratique intimement lie d'honorer les fondateurs civiques, aussi appele le culte fondateur.La mort du fondateur joue un rle essentiel dans les histoires anciennes de la colonization grecque comme la Septime ode olympique, la fois en marquant l'indpendance de la colonie de la ville mre et en liant les citoyens de la ville nouvellement indpendante au pass, travers la performance cyclique de rituels tablis par ou pour le fondateur.L'hrosation du fondateur reprsente donc un tournant dans la vie d'une colonie.De mme, dans Galates 1-2, Paul raconte une histoire de fondation qui se termine avec sa mort.Dans le rcit, c'est son propre corps qui devient un tombeau, un tournant, et un signe lire pour les Galates.Writing a dissertation can be a lonely process, but no one is ever completely alone.A number of people have supported my research and writing in ways both direct and indirect, intellectually, materially, psychologically, and emotionally.Among them special acknowledgement and gratitude must go to my advisor, Prof. Ellen Bradshaw Aitken.I have never known her to offer anything but sound counsel and firm but diplomatic criticism, a combination that has encouraged and helped to shape this project.Her careful scholarship is an inspiration,
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".