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Acts 15:1-29
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| Historical References, Commentary and Comparative Texts:
 | Comparative texts about
Pharisees & Sadducees from Josephus, Tosefta, Mishnah & Babylonian
Talmud. Primary texts about the
Judean-Samaritan Feud and
Samaritan Theology. At (Rutgers University Dept of Religion) Mahlon H.
Smith's Into His
Own: Perspective on the World of Jesus companion to the
historical study of Christian texts. |
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"Revealed to James," The Jesus Database, an online annotated
inventory of the traditions concerning the life and teachings of Jesus.
Dr. Gregory C. Jenks, FaithFutures Foundation. |
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VIII.XXIX, Against Celsus,
Origen. (c.246) |
| From the
Geneva Notes. |
| From
Matthew Henry's Commentary. |
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Section IX,
Evidences of the Christian Religion,
Joseph Addison,
c. 1715. |
| From
Wesley's Notes. |
| From the
Commentary on
the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871). |
| From
The People's New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891. |
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| Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
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"The
Council of Jerusalem: Acts 15," J. Julius Scott, Jr., Wheaton College
Distance Learning. |
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"Avoiding Scandal,"
Larry Broding's Word-Sunday.Com: A
Catholic Resource for This Sunday's Gospel.
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over the good of the community. This, of course, leads to scandal." |
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| Articles & Background:
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"The Language of Church and World," Athanasios N. Papathanasiou,
Ecumenical Review, 1999.
| "The church found itself before a
crucial dilemma, which is first evident in the conflict whose eventual
resolution is described in Acts 15:1-29. Either it would remain
restricted to the Jewish cultural realities or it would open itself to
the wider world. The church chose the second option, addressing itself
to the nations and using their languages and ways of thinking." |
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Acts 15: Gentiles as Gentiles in Davidic Promise and the
Clarification of Paul's Offer of the Gospel in Acts 13
by Greg Herrick at Biblical Studies Foundation. |
| "Meals, Food and Tablefellowship."
Jerome H.
Neyrey, in The Social Sciences and New Testament Interpretation,
159-82. R. L. Rohrbaugh, ed. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1996.
| "How can readers understand the
particular ceremony of meals and table fellowship? Why are meals so
important as symbols of broader social relationships? How can we peer
below the surface and grasp the social dynamics encoded in meals and
commensality, what anthropologists call "the language of meals"?" |
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"Instances of Exegetical Closeness between the DSS and the New Testament,
and Their Implications," Serge Ruzer,
Orion center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and
Associated Literature, 2004. |
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| Reviews:
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Review:
Todd Klutz, the Exorcism Stories in Luke-Acts: A Sociostylistic Reading.
Cambridge University Press, 2004. Review by Sean Kealy in SBL's Review of
Biblical Literature. |
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| Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
subscribed and logged in to
ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
| Blomberg, Craig L.,
"The New Testament Definition of Heresy (or When Do Jesus and the Apostles
Really Get Mad?)," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society,
2002. |
| Callan, Terrance,
"The Background of the Apostolic Decree (Acts 15:20, 29: 21:25)," The
Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1993. |
| Culpepper, R. Alan,
"Paul's Mission to the Gentile World: Acts 13-19," Review & Expositor,
1974. |
| Greene, John T.,
"Paul's Hermeneutic Versus Its Competitors," Journal of Religious
Thought, 1985. |
| Jefford, Clayton N.,
"Tradition and Witness in Antioch: Acts 15 and Didache 6,"
Perspectives in Religious Studies, 1992. |
| Lee, Mark,
"An Evangelical Dialogue on Luke, Salvation, and Spirit Baptism,"
Pneuma, 2004. |
| Malcolm, Lois,
"Conversion, Conversation, and Acts 15," Word & World, 2002. |
| McMillan, David K.,
"Between Text and Sermon: Acts 15:22-31," Interpretation, 2001. |
| Proctor, John,
"Proselytes and Pressure Cookers: The Meaning and Application of Acts
15:20," International Review of Mission, 1996. |
| Reimer, Dalton,
"Phases in Problem Solving: A Biblical Model for the Christian Community,"
Direction, 1990. |
| Savelle, Charles H.,
"A Reexamination of the Prohibitions in Acts 15," Bibliotheca Sacra,
2004. |
| Seifrid, M.A.,
"Jesus and the Law in Acts," Journal for the Study of the New
Testament, 1987. |
| van de Sandt, Huub,
"An Explanation of Acts 15:6-21 in the Light of Deuteronomy 4:29-35 (LXX),"
Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 1992. |
| Whitlock, David B.,
"An Exposition of Acts 15:1-29," Review & Expositor, 1995. |
| Wieser, Thomas,
"Community - Its Unity, Diversity and Universality," Semeia,
1985. |
| Wiarda, Timothy,
"The Jerusalem Council and the Theological Task," Journal of the
Evangelical Theological Society, 2003. |
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Clip Art,
Acts 15:28, Fr. Richard Lonsdale, Resources for Catholic Educators. |
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| Hymns and Music:
| At Digital Hymnal (midi files, guitar chords, karaoke
files, projection text):
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| Fine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's
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| Study Links and Resources for the Book of Acts |
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