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(London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1969), 25.
7
Searle,
Speech Acts
, 25.
8
The most common designation
scholars have given for these offenders is
"Judaizers" or
Hebraioi
. Cf. Earl E. Ellis, "Paul and His Opponents: Trends in the Research," in
Christianity, Judaism, and Other Greco-Roman Cults
, ed. Jacob Neusner (Leiden: Brill, 1975), 4-5, 298.
Nanos has a helpful section on the labels given to
what he entitles "
the influencers
"
in Galatia and shows their shortcomings, specifically concerning Judaizers, opponents or rivals, agitators or
troublemakers, and teachers. Mark E. Nanos,
The Irony of Galatians: Paul
's Letter in First-Century Context
 (Minneapolis: Fortress, 200), 115-31.
9
See Nanos,
The Irony of Galatians
, 234-42 for good summary of interpretational options for
oi peritemnovmenoi
.
10
Cf. Acts 17:6 and 21:38.
11
Timothy George,
Galatians
, The New American Commentary, no. 30, ed. E. Ray Clendenen (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1994), 148.
12
Many take the term "bewitch" (
baskaivnw
) to be figurative and sarcastic. Morland thinks it is more probable that it implies demonic power at work in
their preaching since it is a technical term in the classical Mediterranean world.
Morland,
The Rhetoric of Curse in Galatians
, 146.
Paul described the demonic influence behind false teaching elsewhere (1 Tim 4:1).
13
Robert Jewett, "The Agitators and the Galatian Congregation,"
New Testament Studies