1. Does Luke-Acts move to a rejectio of the Jews
... theme in Acts. Luke sought to legitimate the main supporters of the Jesus movement, and since Paul was a leading exponent of the Jesus movement, Brawley sees this as Luke's task in the picture he paints of Paul. Brawley views the second half of Acts, therefore, as the story of Paul, not of the Gentile mission. Certainly, Luke does put Paul in the limelight, but his primary goal remains a ... fully persuade the same heart to honour God's faithfulness to the covenant with the Jews. Sanders fails to understand the theme of promise and fulfilment, when he says that both Jews and Jewish Chri...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate