O lugar do feminino no canto do hino batismal em Gálatas 3,28c

Abstract

There is no difference between male and female (Gal 3:28c). Paul in reading the baptismal hymn understood that the Law of pure and unclean, circumcision and the interpretation of the Jewish Laws were killing women. Therefore, Paul turns to gender symmetry so that women could be part of a just and equal society (Christianity). The present research aims to understand the place of the feminine in the period of the original Christianities and in Paul, as well as to understand what led the apostle Paul to insert the singing of the baptismal hymn in the writings in Galatians 3:28c. A broad study of the facts that contributed to the discrimination of the feminine against the opposite sex is necessary in the most diverse periods of history, until the Christian movement of the first century A.D. Therefore, in the course of our analysis, some important issues will be addressed for the good development of this investigation, such as the circumcision process, the baptism promoted by John, the interpretation process of the Jewish Law codes, the singing of the baptismal hymn, the original Christianity and Paul. The bibliographic research will help us in the search for materials already published and in the collection of books, scientific articles, dissertations and theses, which will help us to search for data relevant to the survey. Nestle-Aland's Novum Testamentum Graece will serve as reference to the biblical texts (Greek), in addition to the Jerusalem Bible (1991) and the Revised and Corrected Almeida (1995), which will help us to perceive some type of incoherence existing among the sacred texts. The historical-critical method will be used as research methodology, such as textual criticism, literary criticism, historical criticism (sitz im leben), redaction criticism and of the current vital context. Some other methods of biblical interpretation will be used, such as the sociological reading by the conflict method that will propose a biblical reading based on the look of the marginalized, the weak and the humble in the Bible, as well as the contribution that feminist theology will bring to our hermeneutical interpretation. Women will help us to perceive the feminine in sacred text. The discourse of the symmetry between genders will be analyzed among the most diverse themes to be approached, besides following the chronological order of the facts and events present throughout history.