Tag: Acts

Daily Gleanings: Craig Keener Lectures (28 May 2019)

Reading time: < 1 minutes Craig Keener gave two of the plenary lectures at this year’s Stone-Campbell Journal Conference. The first lecture addressed Acts and especially the rhetoric involved in Paul’s speeches as reported there. The introduction and lecture begin around the 10:40 mark. The second lecture addressed Romans. The introduction and lecture begin around the 12:00 mark. Special kudos… Continue reading Daily Gleanings: Craig Keener Lectures (28 May 2019)

Daily Gleanings: SCJ Plenaries (15 April 2019)

Reading time: < 1 minutes On 5–6 April, I attended the annual Stone-Campbell Journal Conference. One of the most fascinating papers was that by David Fiensy. The paper was rather innocuously titled “Interpreting Acts: The Value of Archaeology.” But David delivered a fascinating, eye-opening discussion of disease in the ancient Mediterranean. David’s primary evidence is archaeologically preserved in bones and… Continue reading Daily Gleanings: SCJ Plenaries (15 April 2019)

The Major Critical Edition Data for Acts Is Online

Reading time: < 1 minutes At the 2017 SBL, Holger Strutwolf made the Editio Critica Maior data for Acts freely available online. According to Peter Gurry’s report: There are features in the interface for commenting on the variant unit and a link that will take you to the local stemma and coherence modules for said variant unit. There is also an… Continue reading The Major Critical Edition Data for Acts Is Online

Dawson on Acts and Jubilees

Reading time: < 1 minutes In the Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, Zachary Dawson discusses “The Books of Acts and Jubilees in Dialogue: A Literary-Intertextual Analysis of the Noahide Laws in Acts 15 and 21.” As Dawson summarizes, This study has … identified two main elements of the theme that is symbolically articulated by the Noahide laws. First, the purpose… Continue reading Dawson on Acts and Jubilees