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Empowered for Witness: The Spirit in Luke-Acts is unavailable, but you can change that!

With this study, Menzies sets a new standard for pneumatology. Beginning with an overview of the pneumatological perspectives of intertestamental Judaism (including literature from the Diaspora, Palestinian, Qumran and rabbinic sources), the first section concludes that for the most part these sources “consistently identify experience of the Spirit with prophetic inspiration.” The next section...

Jesus, and it may embrace the miraculous events accompanying Jesus’ supernatural birth as well.1 The theological significance of the insertions is now evident. Through his redactional activity in v. 19 Luke was able to link the miraculous events associated with Jesus (v. 22) and his disciples (vv. 3–11, 43) together with the cosmic portents listed by Joel (vv. 19b–20) as ‘signs and wonders’ which mark the end of the age. In this way Luke stresses the imminence of the Day of the Lord: the miracles
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