Luke and the Jewish Religion
After delineating the difficulties of defining “religion” and “Judaism/Jewish/Jews,” this article traces Luke’s presentation of Jewish religious markers: circumcision, temple worship, sacred space (Jerusalem, synagogues) and sacred time (Sabbath), Scripture, and myth. It argues that Luke renders Jew...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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| In: |
Interpretation
Year: 2014, Volume: 68, Issue: 4, Pages: 389-402 |
| Further subjects: | B
Gospel of
B Temple B Scripture B Synagogue B Halakhah B Luke B Religion B Judaism |
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| Summary: | After delineating the difficulties of defining “religion” and “Judaism/Jewish/Jews,” this article traces Luke’s presentation of Jewish religious markers: circumcision, temple worship, sacred space (Jerusalem, synagogues) and sacred time (Sabbath), Scripture, and myth. It argues that Luke renders Jewish practice and belief, outside of Jesus’ interpretation, as relegated to the past, insignificant, corrupt, or co-opted by Jesus and his followers. |
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| ISSN: | 2159-340X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0020964314540107 |