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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Volume 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

According to StrB 2:730, πνικτόν includes both, ‘sowohl was das AT נבלה als auch was es טרפה nennt’. These two Hebrew words are conveniently defined in terms of Josephus, Ant. 3:260 (κρέως τοῦ τεθνηκότος αὐτομάτως ζῴου τὴν βρῶσιν διεκώλυσεν) and of Exod. 22:30 (בשר בשדה טרפה לא תאכלו). This interpretation of πνικτόν has been widely accepted together with the further points involved in the claim (StrB 2:730–4) that in rabbinic use נבלה came to mean any beast that had not been subjected
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