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Rhetorical Construction of Jews and Pagans in The Book of Acts (Chapters 14-17)744 views
Author
Degerli, Hasan, Religious Studies - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
Advisors
Spittler, Janet, AS-Religious Studies, University of Virginia
Abstract
The Book of Acts is one of the early Christian narratives telling us stories placing Paul as the main character and the apostle to the Gentiles (pagans) with the aid of the Holy Spirit. The author of Acts gradually develops the story from Jerusalem through Asia Minor to Rome. The rhetoric of the author is shaped with this kind of linear development concordantly. As a result of this process, the author generates rhetoric that depicts the Jews critically, portrays to the Gentiles sympathetically. What is striking is that the author pushes “Christian” to the “Gentile” category, despite the fact that the earliest Christians were Jews.
Degerli, Hasan. Rhetorical Construction of Jews and Pagans in The Book of Acts (Chapters 14-17). University of Virginia, Religious Studies - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, MA (Master of Arts), 2019-04-26, https://doi.org/10.18130/v3-aaj7-1f63.
