عنوان

A New Reading of Acts 18:

شماره

LA126479

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

A New Reading of Acts 18:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

24‐19:7Understanding the Ephesian Disciples Encounter as Social Conflict

نام نخستين پديدآور

Randall J. Hedlun

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This article analyses the social function of glossolalia in the narrative world reflected in Acts 18:24‐19:7. In so doing, it begins to address the lack of scholarship related to treating glossolalic references from a social scientific perspective. No treatment of this pericope succeeds to fully integrate it into a Lukan narrative programme. Through application of Berger and Luckmann's sociology of knowledge models, this essay argues that reading Luke-Acts as the author's legitimation of the Jesus movement's social world is a valid, even preferred reading of this literature. Purity-related conflicts between circumcision loyalists and Jesus followers from the Gentile world dominate the second half of Acts and drive Luke's legitimation programme. Based on Luke's demonstration in the Cornelius episode of glossolalia as a divinely initiated marker of Gentile purity status, new social boundaries emerge that supersede circumcision. These new social boundaries represent an integral component of the Jesus movement's revised purity map, relative to temple-centred Yahwism. This study argues that the events narrated in this passage represent a continuing social conflict between circumcision loyalists and Gentile converts. Luke narrates the events in Acts 18:24‐19:7 in order to correct a deviant baptism teaching (John's baptism) that was propagated with the intent, based on purity concerns and prejudice, to marginalize Gentiles from full social integration into the Jesus community. Demonstrating that glossolalia functions as a social boundary marker that supersedes circumcision and that this best informs our interpretation of the Ephesian disciples pericope fully integrates this narrative event into Luke's literary programme. This article analyses the social function of glossolalia in the narrative world reflected in Acts 18:24‐19:7. In so doing, it begins to address the lack of scholarship related to treating glossolalic references from a social scientific perspective. No treatment of this pericope succeeds to fully integrate it into a Lukan narrative programme. Through application of Berger and Luckmann's sociology of knowledge models, this essay argues that reading Luke-Acts as the author's legitimation of the Jesus movement's social world is a valid, even preferred reading of this literature. Purity-related conflicts between circumcision loyalists and Jesus followers from the Gentile world dominate the second half of Acts and drive Luke's legitimation programme. Based on Luke's demonstration in the Cornelius episode of glossolalia as a divinely initiated marker of Gentile purity status, new social boundaries emerge that supersede circumcision. These new social boundaries represent an integral component of the Jesus movement's revised purity map, relative to temple-centred Yahwism. This study argues that the events narrated in this passage represent a continuing social conflict between circumcision loyalists and Gentile converts. Luke narrates the events in Acts 18:24‐19:7 in order to correct a deviant baptism teaching (John's baptism) that was propagated with the intent, based on purity concerns and prejudice, to marginalize Gentiles from full social integration into the Jesus community. Demonstrating that glossolalia functions as a social boundary marker that supersedes circumcision and that this best informs our interpretation of the Ephesian disciples pericope fully integrates this narrative event into Luke's literary programme.

تاريخ نشر

2010

توصيف ظاهري

40-60

عنوان

Religion and Theology

شماره جلد

17/1-2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1574-3012

اصطلاح موضوعی

Acts 18:24‐19:7

اصطلاح موضوعی

Apollos

اصطلاح موضوعی

circumcision

اصطلاح موضوعی

Ephesian disciples

اصطلاح موضوعی

glossolalia

اصطلاح موضوعی

John's baptism

اصطلاح موضوعی

legitimation

اصطلاح موضوعی

purity boundary

اصطلاح موضوعی

purity conflict

اصطلاح موضوعی

purity map

اصطلاح موضوعی

social boundary

اصطلاح موضوعی

tongues

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Randall J. Hedlun

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/157430110X517915

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y