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Speaking in tongues (glossolalia) is a common spiritual phenomenon in the Pentecostal and Charismatic streams of the Christian church. Such Christians believe that when they speak in tongues they are communicating with God in a language that they have never learned—spiritual prayer language given to them by the Holy Spirit. This innovative volume seeks to enhance our understanding and...

its reversal.5 Luke’s depiction of the tongues of Pentecost is shaped in contrast to the confused tongues of Babel. In Genesis 11, humankind is scattered over the face of the earth into different languages, while the tongues of Pentecost point to a reunification of humankind under a common understanding of the gospel message. At Babel, the tongues are confused, which is precisely the initial response of the audience at Pentecost, revealing a linguistic dependence between the two passages that ‘is
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