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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...

distinguish such rationalisation from Luke’s own view. With many Jews, he regards the feast of Pentecost as a commemoration of Moses’ ascent to God on Mount Sinai to receive the gift of the old covenant law, which he then gave to the assembled people. What Luke describes in Acts 2 is an event he understands as a new covenant christological fulfilment of the Sinai theophany, in which now Jesus ascends to God in heaven to receive the gift of the Spirit, instead, and pours it out on his assembled people
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