Pamela Shellberg

Cleansed Lepers, Cleansed Hearts (eBook, ePUB)

Purity and Healing in Luke-Acts

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

> and used the language of "clean" and "unclean" and demonstrates how Luke's first-century understandings shaped his report of Peter's dream in Acts 10 as a warrant for Gentile inclusion.

Shellberg illuminates Luke's understanding of "cleansing" as one of his primary expressions of the means of God's salvation and favor, breaking down and breaking through the distinctions between Jew and Gentile. Shellberg's conclusions take up the value of Luke's emphasis on the divine prerogative to declare things "clean" for discussions of inclusion and social distinction today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fortress Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781451494310
• Artikelnr.: 42124641

Autorenporträt

Pamela Shellberg has taught New Testament at Bangor Theological Seminary in Bangor, Maine. She holds a PhD in religious studies from Marquette University. She is currently the scholar-in-residence at TheBTS Center, mission successor to Bangor Theological Seminary, developing educational programs to equip and support clergy and laypeople for twenty-first-century ministries.