19
Hans Dieter Betz,
Galatians: A Commentary on Paul's Letter to the Churches in Galatia
(Philadelphia: Fortress, 1979), 25, 53-4.
20
Betz,
Galatians
, 25, 53, n. 90. The curse would include excommunication and certain death. He even says that this passage is
"the first instance of Christian excommunication." Ibid., 54.
21
James Thomas South II, "Corrective Discipline in the Pauline Communities" (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of
Virginia, 1989), 193-5.
22
Betz,
Galatians
, 25, n. 125.
23
See
below and
Anderson, "Is Anathematization a Tool for the Evangelical Theologian Today?"
19-82.
24
It is also interesting to note that for as little time Brichto spends on
!r
in his famous
SBL
monograph, he rejects the similar magical interpretation of
h
?erem
of Betz. H. C. Brichto,
The Problem of `Curse' in the Hebrew Bible
(Philadelphia: Society of Biblical Literature, 1963), 205.
25
Ernst K
@
semann,
New Testament Questions of Today
(London: SCM, 1969), 72, 76.
26
Cf. Norbert Lohfink, "H
i
aram; H
i