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  • From: "Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT mailhost.chi.ameritech.net>
  • To: Corpus-paul <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: hard evidence for early opening to Gentiles <LYR86769-45571-2000.03.23-13.59.00--ekrentz#lstc.edu AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 21:44:17 -0500


Brian Tucker wrote:

> Greetings
>
> Greetings
>
> What about the initial commissioning of Paul to preach to the Gentiles, for
> all intents and purposes he evangelized Gentiles that were associated with
> the synagogues of the diaspora, in Damascus and Arabia.
>
> Hengel, Martin, and Anna Maria Schwemer. Paul Between Damascus and Antioch:
> The Unknown Years. London: SCM Press, 1997, pp. 107-08.
>
> It appears that Paul's ministry to Gentiles began with the sympathizers of
> Judaism. When Paul 'goes west youngman' he targets this groups (Acts 13:50;
> 16:14; 18:6-7; cf. 13:43; 17:4; 17:17).
>

The difficulty here is that Paul himself never speaks of targeting Gentile
sympathizers, his mission strategy as he reveals it is quite different from
the way
Luke portrays it, and the Lukan Jew first/Godfearers/Gentiles scheme may be
a wholly
Lukan construction. It is partly the difference between the mission strategy
that
appears in Paul's letters and that with which Luke presents us that led
Kraabel to
claim that Luke's assertions about the existence of Gentile "God Fearers" are
fictitious.

Yours,

Jeffrey
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Jeffrey B. Gibson
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Chicago, Illinois 60626
e-mail jgibson000 AT ameritech.net






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