Peter's halakhic nightmare
Subtitle: the "animal" vision of Acts 10:9-16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman perspective
By: John R.L. Moxon
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe -- 432; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 432.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Tübingen, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 638
ISBN-13: 9783161533013
Subjects: Law (Theology); Bible; Frühjudentum; Criticism, interpretation; Exegese; Bibel; Antike; Traum; Biblical teaching; Jewish law; Vision
Description: "Did Luke intend Peter's visionary command to eat 'unclean animals' in Acts 10 to suggest the dissolution of the Jewish Law? Whilst scholars have argued over sources, inconsistent redaction and later reception, many have failed to notice here the novel use of a type of transgression anxiety dream. John Moxon shows how by the incorporation of such naturalistic motifs, Luke takes "revelation" in a new and decidedly psychological direction, probably imitating similar developments in Graeco-Roman biography. If the vision reveals an illegitimate transfer of disgust within an exaggerated halakha of separation, then its target is prejudice and inconsistency, not the Jew-Gentile divide as such, as underlined by the ironic contrast with the pious Cornelius. In this reading, Luke's non-supercessionism is maintained, whilst showing him acutely aware of the kinds of nightmare holding many back from the nascent Gentile mission."
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Durham University, 2011 under title: Peter's Halakhic nightmare : the 'animal' vision of Acts 10:9 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman perspective.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-569) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction; title: Purpose, method and approach --; title: Aims --; title: Literature review --; title: Presuppositions and method --; title: Possible significance --; title: Peter's vision : outline, contexts and controversies --; title: Structure and sequence --; title: Gentile mission, table-fellowship and conversion --; title: Abolition and alternatives --; title: An unusual kind of "revelation" --; title: Redactional, form-critical and literary perspectives --; title: Tradition and redaction --; title: Form criticism --; title: Narrative and functional readings --; title: Conclusions --; title: lntertextual readings of Acts 10:1-11:18 --; title: Old Testament --; title: New Testament --; title: Graeco-Roman --; title: Conclusions --; title: Peter's vision : fresh observations and new questions --; title: Deixis --; title: Form --; title: Content --; title: Interpretation --; title: Genre --; title: Conclusions --; title: Summary and plan of investigation --; title: A note on the appendices --; title: Halakhic intertexture of Peter's vision --; title: Introduction --; title: Halakhic background --; title: Jewish law in the first century : problems of definition --; title: Explicit and implicit issues in Acts 10:1-11:18 --; title: The biblical laws --; title: Halakhic intensification and the rhetoric of separation --; title: Association and table-fellowship in theory and practice --; title: Luke's portrayal of the Jerusalem stance --; title: Initial questions for the interpretation of the dream --; title: Peter's vision in halakhic perspective --; title: Introduction --; title: The visual scene --; title: The command --; title: The problem --; title: The refusal : ... --; title: The riposte : ... --; title: The repeats and the closure of the vision --; title: The dialogue as halakhic discourse --; title: Peter's vision in halakhic perspective : summary --; title: Conclusions and further questions --; title: Dreams and visions : form and interpretation --; title: Introduction --; title: Orientation --; title: Organisation and use of appendix --; title: Phenomena, definitions and terminology --; title: Contexts and definitions --; title: Terminology --; title: The form-critical categories of oppenheim --; title: Outer form, frame --; title: Message dreams --; title: Symbolic dreams --; title: Variations and developments --; title: Critique --; title: Survey of dreams and visions --; title: ANE and Hebrew Bible --; title: Ancient and classical Greek tradition --; title: Popular, therapeutic and personal dream accounts --; title: Hellenistic and Roman historiography --; title: Hellenistic and Roman biography --; title: Hellenistic and Roman epic and fiction --; title: Apocrypha, Josephus, gospels and Acts --; title: Conclusions --; title: Natural and anxiety dreams --; title: Introduction --; title: Natural dreaming --; title: Seeing and memory --; title: Body and health --; title: Food and drink --; title: Circumstances and desires --; title: Morality and character --; title: Natural prescience and dream cognition --; title: Natural dreaming in literary settings --; title: Overtones of natural dreaming in Peter's vision --; title: Anxiety dreams and nightmares --; title: Introduction and problems of definition --; title: Treatment in dream theory and literary representation --; title: Forms and motifs --; title: Bad dreams and the principle of opposites --; title: Anxiety and nightmare motifs in Peter's vision --; title: Transgression and paradox --; title: Prescience and anxiety --; title: Demons and desires --; title: Deception and dissimulation --; title: Conclusions --; title: Two traditional objections --; title: The "divine" voice --; title: The Repeating command and rebuke --; title: Summary and conclusions --; title: Enigmatic divine speech in dreams --; title: Introduction --; title: Definitions, forms and contexts --; title: Approach to analysis --; title: Ancient contexts of enigmatic speech --; title: Oracular and prophetic contexts --; title: Popular and pedagogic contexts --; title: Ancient debate about enigmatic divine speech --; title: Graeco-Roman debate --; title: Jewish and early Christian debate --; title: Enigmatic speech in Graeco-Roman dreams --; title: Popular, therapeutic and personal dreams --; title: Dreams in literary sources --; title: Enigmatic speech in Acts and in Peter's vision --; title: Introduction --; title: Elsewhere in Acts --; title: Peter's vision in Acts 10 --; title: Concluding observations --; title: Peter's vision and double dreams --; title: Introduction --; title: Orientation --; title: Organisation and use of appendix --; title: The nature and function of double dreams --; title: Introduction --; title: Variety and function --; title: Contrasts within double dreams --; title: Form --; title: Dream Figures --; title: Complexity --; title: Practicality --; title: Transparency --; title: Natural and anxiety motifs --; title: Dreamer disposition and character --; title: The Peter-Cornelius story and ancient double dreams --; title: Summary of findings --; title: Apologetic agendas --; title: Conclusions --; title: Summary and conclusions --; title: Survey of findings --; title: Wider significance --; title: Suggestions for further research --; title: Structure and terminology --; title: Outline of passage --; title: Dream and vision terminology --; title: Ane and Hebrew terminology --; title: Greek terminology --; title: Latin terminology --; title: Further lexical notes : ... --; title: Dreams, classification and notes --; title: Organisation of catalogue --; title: Ancient near east and biblical --; title: Ane dreams --; title: Hebrew Bible --; title: Ancient and classical Greek tradition --; title: Homer --; title: Greek tragedy --; title: Greek comedy --; title: Herodotus --; title: Popular and therapeutic dreaming --; title: Epidauros --; title: Other asclepion dreams --; title: Aelius Aristides --; title: Artemidorus --; title: Hellenistic and Roman literature --; title: Dionysius of halicarnassus --; title: Diodorus Siculus --; title: Plutarch --; title: Suetonius --; title: Apollonius Rhodius --; title: Vergil --; title: Greek and Latin fiction --; title: Apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, Josephus and NT --; title: Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha --; title: Josephus --; title: Gospels and Acts --; title: Oracles in herodotus --; title: Types of record --; title: Historical notes --; title: Consultation notices --; title: Oracles summarised in reported speech --; title: Oracles quoted in direct speech --; title: Structure of riddling oracles --; title: Riddling language throughout --; title: Riddling elements in one half of oracle --; title: Riddling elements in middle of oracle --; title: Single ambiguous element --; title: Other authors --; title: Double dreams --; title: Principles of selection --; title: Catalogue --; title: Ane, OT and homer --; title: Historiography, biography and related inscriptions --; title: Greek and Latin fiction --; title: Jewish literature --; title: Therapeutic, popular and personal accounts --; title: New Testament --; title: Apocryphal acts and other hagiography --; title: Narrative configuration --; title: Revelatory framework --; title: Recipients --; title: Timing --; title: Distance --; title: Form and content --; title: Form --; title: Content --; title: Interpretation and function --; title: Interpretation --; title: Function ---- Bibliography-- Index of ancient sources-- Index of modern authors-- Index of subjects.