Stephen: Paul and the Hellenist IsraelitesLiturgical Press, 2008 - 87 sivua It is difficult to appreciate how Stephen qualifies as a friend of someone who attended and approved of his murder (Acts 7:58; 22:20). Yet Stephen belonged to the very group of Israelites to whom Paul later brought the Good News: the Hellenists. These Israelites lived mainly outside of Paulestine, thoroughly acculturated in the Greek language and culture of their habitat, and they practiced their traditions in a very modified way. These modifications created great difficulty for Stephen and other Hellenists who resumed residence in Jerusalem, as we read in Acts 6-7. In this account we learn who Stephen was, what he said, and how he died - -all things that made a huge impression on Paul. That experience set the stage for Paul's commissioning by the risen Jesus to evangelize Hellenists (Acts 9). In Stephen: Paul and the Hellenist Israelites, John J. Pilch reflects on Stephen as a Hellenist Israelite, a collectivistic person, a deacon (the word does not appear in Acts), and one who true to his tradition communicates with the world of God in alternate states of consciousness. Paul has much in common with Stephen, so to know Stephen is to gain a better understanding of Paul. |
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... fact and fiction we expect from history does not reach further back than the eighteenth century . Ancient historians such as Luke blurred that distinction . Their histories are interpreted reports rather than purely factual reports ...
... fact and interpretation are not clearly separated in ancient history as is expected in modern historiography . The fact is that Stephen was tried and executed . But Luke's report of those events in Ste- phen's life was patterned after ...
... light on Luke and his compositions . The reader can understand Luke's intentions and the literary strategies he employed to communicate them . We understand now much better that Luke's report about Stephen is fact Who Is Stephen ? xix.
... fact and interpretation . Like Jesus , Stephen was a real person who really existed and died . The tradition about the discovery of his bones appears to assure us of this . Whether Stephen died the way Luke reports is open to discussion ...
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