If Christians could not claim to be Jews, perhaps they could claim to be “children of Abraham.” The thought was ingenious. If Paul could pull it off, he would have redefined the constitution of Israel and found a way to anchor the once upon a time of the Christ myth both in recent human history and in the epic of Israel. Paul’s letter to the Galatians is actually a lengthy, passionate, and convoluted argument in support of that claim. It is the earliest recorded revision of Israel’s history that tries to align the Christ myth with that history.
