The Oddity of the Reference to Jesus in Acts 4:13b
This essay argues that Luke's strong association of Jesus with the manual-labor class in Acts 4:13b, and specifically with the disciples' "illiteracy" and "unlearnedness," is out of step with a sustained redactional strategy in his Gospel, whereby he consistently remove...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Scholar's Press
[2015]
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Journal of Biblical literature
Year: 2015, Volume: 134, Issue: 4, Pages: 791-811 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Apostelgeschichte 4,13
/ Luke
/ Mark
/ Jesus Christus
/ Teacher
/ Disciple
/ Education
/ Simplicity
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IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament |
Further subjects: | B
JOB classification
B Bible. Gospels B Bible. Mark B Bible. Acts B Bible. Luke |
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Summary: | This essay argues that Luke's strong association of Jesus with the manual-labor class in Acts 4:13b, and specifically with the disciples' "illiteracy" and "unlearnedness," is out of step with a sustained redactional strategy in his Gospel, whereby he consistently removed the Gospel of Mark's associations of Jesus with the manual-labor class and offered an alternative image of Jesus as a scribal-literate teacher. This redactional strategy is particularly clear in Mark's and Luke's differing portrayals of Jesus as a synagogue teacher. Acts 4:13b may constitute a Lukan cameo of the Markan Jesus, but, regardless of this possibility, Acts 4:13b presents a moment of discontinuity between Luke's Gospel and Acts that has been overlooked. The primary purpose of the article is to articulate the oddity of Luke's interpretive choice in Acts 4:13b in light of his other images of Jesus and his portrayal of the Spirit in Luke-Acts. The essay closes with a possible solution: Luke has, in his Gospel, portrayed Jesus in imago Pauli. |
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ISSN: | 1934-3876 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Biblical literature
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.15699/jbl.1344.2015.2908 |