Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-161) and index.

1. Galatian disputes -- A volatile mix -- New perspective and beyond -- The use and abuse of Paul -- 2. Paul's context -- Paul's commissioning -- Jewish pluralism in Paul's time -- Paul's zealous faith -- Paul's symbolic horizon -- Jewish restoration eschatology -- New creation -- 3. Challenges and challengers in Galatia -- The Galatian assemblies -- Jewish missionaries and gentile proselytes -- Gentile converts -- Paul's polemics -- The problems Paul faced -- Sarah and Hagar -- Who were Paul's opponents? -- Covenant fidelity as the opponents' ideal -- 4. Women in the Galatian assemblies -- Gender and Torah -- Greco-Roman women -- Jewish women in the diaspora -- Women proselytes in Pauline communities -- The threat to the Galatian women -- 5. Recovering Paul--and the gospel -- Paul's pregnant silence about women -- Questioning the doctrinal reading of Paul -- What were the men thinking? -- A different gospel -- Difference and its absence.