Rise, Kill, and Eat': Animals as Nations in Early Jewish Visionary Literature and Acts 10
Peter's vision in Acts 10 ostensibly concerns dietary laws but is interpreted within the narrative as a revelation of God's mercy towards the Gentiles, culminating in the baptism of Cornelius' household. How this vision pertains to the immediately following events has remained a probl...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2019]
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Journal for the study of the New Testament
Year: 2019, Volume: 42, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-17 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Apostelgeschichte 10
/ Early Judaism
/ Animal symbols
/ Nation (university)
/ Food laws
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion CD Christianity and Culture HC New Testament HD Early Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
table fellowship
B Gentiles B food laws B Apocalyptic visions B ritual purity |
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| Summary: | Peter's vision in Acts 10 ostensibly concerns dietary laws but is interpreted within the narrative as a revelation of God's mercy towards the Gentiles, culminating in the baptism of Cornelius' household. How this vision pertains to the immediately following events has remained a problem in scholarship on Acts. This article argues that the vision depends on earlier apocalyptic Jewish depictions of various nations as animals (and empires as hybrid beasts) and allegorical explanations of the food laws familiar in the Second Temple period in which the forbidden animals are understood as representing those peoples with whom Israel must not mix. What seems on the surface to refer to food is therefore naturally understood within this genre as a reference to nations and peoples. Acts 10 thus makes use of standard Jewish apocalyptic tropes familiar to its audience but less familiar to modern readers. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5294 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the New Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0142064X19855564 |