What Does the Spirit Have to Do with Foreigners?

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" What Does the Spirit Have to Do with Foreigners? "
Rodolfo Galvan Estrada III

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1080917
Doc. No	:	LA124546
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700747-03903016‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Rodolfo Galvan Estrada III
Title & Author	:	What Does the Spirit Have to Do with Foreigners? [Article]\ Rodolfo Galvan Estrada III
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Pneuma
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	39/3
Page No	:	275–294
Abstract	:	This article examines how Greco-Roman ethnoracial views inform our understanding of Peter and Cornelius’s encounter in Acts 10:28–48. By drawing from the Gentile perception of Jewish misanthropy mentioned by Diodorus of Sicily and Tacitus, we find that Peter was harboring a resistance to preach the gospel to the Caesareans. By rereading the narrative from this perspective, visions and Spirit baptism within Acts 10 become divine events that challenge the reluctance to preach the gospel and associate with foreigners. This article examines how Greco-Roman ethnoracial views inform our understanding of Peter and Cornelius’s encounter in Acts 10:28–48. By drawing from the Gentile perception of Jewish misanthropy mentioned by Diodorus of Sicily and Tacitus, we find that Peter was harboring a resistance to preach the gospel to the Caesareans. By rereading the narrative from this perspective, visions and Spirit baptism within Acts 10 become divine events that challenge the reluctance to preach the gospel and associate with foreigners.
Descriptor	:	Cornelius
Descriptor	:	ethnicity
Descriptor	:	misanthropy
Descriptor	:	Peter
Descriptor	:	race
Descriptor	:	Spirit baptism
Descriptor	:	visions
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700747-03903016‬