Christ Redeemed 'Us' from the Curse of the Law

This academic work advances the thesis that Paul borrowed from martyr traditions represented in 2 and 4 Maccabees and reconstructed them to fit his exegetical, theological, and polemical purposes in Galatians 3:13.

Williams identifies multiple points of contact between these martyr traditions and Paul's text, organized under exegetical, theological/conceptual, lexical/grammatical, and polemical/argumentative categories.

The book argues that reading Galatians 3:13 through a martyrological lens provides deeper insight into Paul's attack against his opponents' 'other gospel' and his persuasion of the Galatians to reject a Torah-observant, gentile-exclusive approach.