Interpreting Acts
Interpreters of Acts face three recurrent questions: 1) What is its genre? 2) Why was it written? and 3) How is Scripture used? In deciding genre, readers must decide if Acts is history, and, if so, in what sense. Determining its literary or theological purpose can be done in terms of asking what Ac...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
2012
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| In: |
Interpretation
Year: 2012, Volume: 66, Issue: 3, Pages: 245-258 |
| Further subjects: | B
Interpretation of
B Messianic B Luke B Judaism B Literary Genre B Mission (international law B Acts B Pesher |
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| Summary: | Interpreters of Acts face three recurrent questions: 1) What is its genre? 2) Why was it written? and 3) How is Scripture used? In deciding genre, readers must decide if Acts is history, and, if so, in what sense. Determining its literary or theological purpose can be done in terms of asking what Acts accomplishes. |
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| ISSN: | 2159-340X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0020964312443187 |