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Paul and the Heritage of Israel: Paul’s Claim upon Israel’s Legacy in Luke and Acts in the Light of the Pauline Letters is unavailable, but you can change that!

As a sequel to the hugely successful Jesus and the Heritage of Israel, this book brings together fourteen internationally acclaimed scholars in antiquities studies and experts on Paul and Luke. The contributors provoke new approaches to the troubled relation of the Lukan Paul by re-configuring the figure and impact of Paul upon nascent Christianity. Two leading questions serve as the basis of...

analogies with the passion of Jesus. Paul finds himself alone, facing the people who want his death (21:36; 22:22), just as Jesus found himself alone. Paul appears before the Sanhedrin, before the Roman authorities, and before King Agrippa (Acts 21:40–26:32), just as Jesus appeared before the Sanhedrin, before Pilate, and before King Herod (Lk. 22:66–23:25). Paul, like Jesus, is accused of propagating a teaching that incites the people, and one which has spread widely (Acts 24:5; Lk. 23:5). On three
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