The end of Acts as a new beginning? Tradition and innovation in Lucan writings
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The paper examines Luke's Gospel and Acts of the Apostles in connection with the topics of tradition and innovation. Following the later dating of Lukan writings (Pervo 2006) and their putting into the context of the Second Sophistics (Nasrallah 2010), the paper reconsiders Luke’s emphases he had put on Jerusalem as a center of Jewish diaspora as well as on Rome as an imperial metropolis. The close attention is paid to the question if the "Roman universalistic" conclusion of Acts came into conflict with the traditional Jewish focus on Jerusalem supporting the Christian claim on ancient continuity. |