“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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Main Author: Ozawa, Kaori (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Soc. 2020
In: Orient
Year: 2020, Volume: 55, Pages: 105-115
Further subjects:B Gentiles
B God-Fearer
B Luke
B Acts
B Fear of God / YHWH
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