Intergroup conflict, recategorization, and identity construction in Acts : breaking the cycle of slander, labeling, and violence /
"Hyun Ho Park analyzes Acts 21:17-23:35 in which the vicious cycle of slander, labeling, and violence is finally broken and the Lukan construction of Christian identity is challenged"--
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
T&T Clark,
2024
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| Series: | Library of New Testament studies ;
691 |
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| Summary: | "Hyun Ho Park analyzes Acts 21:17-23:35 in which the vicious cycle of slander, labeling, and violence is finally broken and the Lukan construction of Christian identity is challenged"-- "Hyun Ho Park employs social identity to create the first thorough analysis via such methodology of Acts 21:17-23:35, which contains one of the fiercest intergroup conflicts in Acts. Park's assessment allows his readers to rethink, reevaluate, and reimagine Jewish-Christian relations; teaches them how to respond to the vicious cycle of slander, labeling, and violence permeating contemporary public and private spheres; and presents a new hermeneutical cycle and describes how readers may apply it to their own sociopolitical contexts. Park first analyses Paul's welcome, questioning, and arrest, and how slandering and labeling make Paul an outsider. Park then describes how, through defending his Jewish identity and the Way, Paul nuances his public image and re-categorizes himself and the Way as part of the people of God. When Paul identifies himself as a Roman and later a Pharisee, Park examines Luke's ambivalent attitude toward Rome and the Pharisees, and assesses how Paul escapes dangerous situations by claiming different social identities at different times. Finally, he discloses the vicious cycle of slander, labeling, and violence not only against the Way but also against the Jews and challenges the discursive process of identity construction through intergroup conflict with an out-group, especially the proximate 'Other.'" -- "Hyun Ho Park employs social identity to create the first thorough analysis via such methodology of Acts 21:17-23:35, which contains one of the fiercest intergroup conflicts in Acts. Park's assessment allows his readers to rethink, reevaluate, and reimagine Jewish-Christian relations; teaches them how to respond to the vicious cycle of slander, labeling, and violence permeating contemporary public and private spheres; and presents a new hermeneutical cycle and describes how readers may apply it to their own sociopolitical contexts. Park first analyses Paul's welcome, questioning, and arrest, and how slandering and labeling make Paul an outsider. Park then describes how, through defending his Jewish identity and the Way, Paul nuances his public image and re-categorizes himself and the Way as part of the people of God. When Paul identifies himself as a Roman and later a Pharisee, Park examines Luke's ambivalent attitude toward Rome and the Pharisees, and assesses how Paul escapes dangerous situations by claiming different social identities at different times. Finally, he discloses the vicious cycle of slander, labeling, and violence not only against the Way but also against the Jews and challenges the discursive process of identity construction through intergroup conflict with an out-group, especially the proximate 'Other.'" -- |
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| Item Description: | "...a revised version of my dissertation at the Graduate Theological Union...." -- See "Acknowledgments', page [xiii] |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm xviii, 201 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-178) and indexes Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 056771327X 0567713318 9780567713278 9780567713315 |
| ISSN: | 2513-8790 ; |