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Acts of the Apostles
On Solon's recommendation I started reading Acts in Greek, as well as Mark, but I ordered this book:
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&...um=1&ct=result to understand the research on Acts. It is well-done from I can tell at this point.
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Did I say it wasn't. It is a story told from a certain perspective.
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Okay, Mr. Saderis.
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Despite such entreaties, you'll have to ask UteStar for such favors, Seattle. He's into that sort of thing, or you can ask Mr. Hamrick.
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Acts 21 is one of the most interesting of all scriptures. It seems to me there's a huge subtext there that's been lost. There is much that is internally inconsitent with the rest of the NT, and incomprehensible. Why is James telling Paul to go to the temple and purify himself to prove he's not against Mosaic law and not telling people to disregard Mosaic law? I thought Jesus was supposed to have made all that unnecessary. Seems James and the other apostles didn't agree with Paul on this. And then while Paul is at the temple he gets attacked (apprently because of a trumped up charge that he brought a gentile--a Greek--beyond the Court of the Gentiles), Roman soldiers intervene and save him, and extradite him to Rome, where he writes the majority of his epistles (in Greek) and then later dies, according to tradition by execution. Did James try to get Paul killed? It seems they didn't see eye to eye about a lot.
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