Levinskaia, I. A.,

The book of Acts in its diaspora setting / [print] by Irina Levinskaya. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : W.B. Eerdmans ; 1996. Carlisle [England] : Paternoster Press, (c)1996. - xii, 284 pages, 16. pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.



Diaspora Jews, proselytes and God-fearers. Diaspora Jews in the book of Acts -- Proselytes : non-Christian evidence -- Proselytes : Christian evidence -- God-fearers : epigraphic evidence -- God-fearers and the cult of the Most High God -- God-fearers : the Bosporan Kingdom : a case study -- God-fearers : the literary evidence -- Jewish diaspora communities. Antioch -- Asia Minor -- Macedonia and Achaia -- Rome -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 : Syncretism-- the term and the phenomenon -- Appendix 2 : The meaning of 'proseuche' -- Appendix 3 : Inscriptions from the Bosporan Kingdom.



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Bible.--Acts--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Jewish diaspora.
Proselytes and proselyting, Jewish.

BS2625.L665.B665 1996