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Cleansed lepers, cleansed hearts : purity and healing in Luke-Acts / Pamela Shellberg.
Van Pelt Library BS2589.6.P95 S54 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shellberg, Pamela.
- Series:
- Emerging scholars
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Luke.
- Purity, Ritual.
- Bible. Luke--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Physical Description:
- x, 258 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- Pamela Shellberg shows that Luke's use of the language of "clean" and "unclean" has particular first-century medical connotations that make it especially powerful for expressing his understanding of the universal salvation prophesied by Isaiah and by Jesus. Shellberg traces how the stories of Jesus' cleansing of leprous bodies in the Gospel became the pattern for the divine cleansing of Gentile hearts throughout Acts, and one of Luke's primary expressions of the means of God's salvation and favor through the dissolving of distinctions between Jew and Gentile. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 Lepra in Ancient Contexts 29
- 3 Dektos and Katharizo 95
- 4 Katharizo Texts in Luke-Acts 149
- 5 Reading the Peter-Cornelius Story Again "Their Hearts were Cleansed by Faith" 197.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-243) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1451485247
- 9781451485240
- OCLC:
- 889524258
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