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Ethnic Negotiations: The Function of Race and Ethnicity in Acts 16

Ethnic Negotiations: The Function of Race and Ethnicity in Acts 16

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Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament 2.Reihe, Book 294

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ISBN10: 316150609X
ISBN13: 9783161506093
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: Dec 31 2010
Pages: 221
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Biblical scholarship has recently begun to explore the complex notions of race and ethnicity. Focusing on Acts 16, Eric D. Barreto inquires as to the function of ethnic identities in Luke's composition. The current study of Acts curtails a full appreciation of Luke's expansive theological vision by either neglecting racial and ethnic categories or construing them as relatively static designations. Instead, race and ethnicity were theologically vital yet flexible notions in Acts. Luke does not imagine the creation of a new ethnicity of Christians; instead, he projects an interstitial ethnic space between the competing and overlapping ethnic claims of Jews, Romans, Greeks, and the other peoples that populate the pages of Acts. Luke does not erase ethnic difference but employs the flexible bounds of ethnicity in order to illustrate the wide reach of the early church movement.

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