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The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting, Volume 4: The Book of Acts in Its Palestinian Setting is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting, vol. 4: Palestinian Setting is devoted to a series of studies of those parts of the narrative of Acts that are specifically set in Palestine. The geographical, political, cultural, social, and religious aspects of first-century Jewish Palestine are all explored in order to throw light on Luke’s account of the Palestinian origins of early...

commandment (Ex. 20:10; Dt. 5:14),139 which are specifically said to apply to resident aliens. But the use of the catchphrase בתוך explains the selection. Besides the laws in Leviticus 17–18, the only laws in the Torah which the alien resident ‘in the midst’ (בתוך) of Israel is obliged to obey are Leviticus 16:29; Numbers 15:14–16, 29; 19:10, but all these refer specifically to the Temple cult. We can well imagine that Jewish Christian exegetes who understood the eschatological Temple to which Gentile
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