... include favourable notes about them in his narrative. Haenchen and Conzelmann saw ambivalence as a primary feature of Luke-Acts. Luke, they say, was addressing a particular historical problem - understanding Christianity as a stage in continuity with Judaism and at the same time explaining why most Jews of his day did not respond to the Christian message. Luke had two images of Jews: one ... deny that Paul taught Jewish Christians to abandon Torah, as some had suspected (Acts 21:21). This false charge provides Luke with an opportunity to defend the Gospel message in front of some powerf...

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