“God-Fearer” in Acts as a Topos: Where Religious Piety and Ethnic Otherness Meet
In Acts, we find various categories of people including Jews and gentiles differentiated presumably according to religion or ethnicity. However, when we investigate the border between those categories, we notice that a border can at the same time be a point of connection. This paper will show that i...
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Year: 2020, Volume: 55, Pages: 105-115 |
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B God-Fearer B Luke B Acts B Fear of God / YHWH |
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