Cleansed Lepers, Cleansed Hearts
Subtitle: Purity and Healing in Luke--Acts
Publisher: 1517 Media
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781451485240
Subjects: Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., n. t. gospels; Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., n. t. acts; Miracles
Description: Pamela Shellberg shows that Luke's use of the language of "clean" and "unclean" has particular first-century medical connotations that make it especially powerful for expressing his understanding of the universal salvation prophesied by Isaiah and by Jesus. Shellberg traces how the stories of Jesus' cleansing of leprous bodies in the Gospel become the pattern for the divine cleansing of Gentile hearts throughout Acts, and one of Luke's primary expressions of the means of God's salvation and favor through the dissolving of distinctions between Jew and Gentile.