Did the Pharisees Eat Ordinary Food in a State of Ritual Purity?

Harrington, Hannah K.

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“…Dem. 2.2, 20-22;Harrington 1995), effectively treating that food as though it were holy. 22 Meat from a clean animal could also be rendered illicit 21.…”

Section: Contributions Of Peter's Vision To the Narrative: Pure/impurmentioning

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‘Rise, Kill, and Eat’: Animals as Nations in Early Jewish Visionary Literature and Acts 10

Staples

2019

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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Peter’s vision in Acts 10 ostensibly concerns dietary laws but is interpreted within the narrative as a revelation of God’s mercy towards the Gentiles, culminating in the baptism of Cornelius’ household. How this vision pertains to the immediately following events has remained a problem in scholarship on Acts. This article argues that the vision depends on earlier apocalyptic Jewish depictions of various nations as animals (and empires as hybrid beasts) and allegorical explanations of the food laws familiar in the Second Temple period in which the forbidden animals are understood as representing those peoples with whom Israel must not mix. What seems on the surface to refer to food is therefore naturally understood within this genre as a reference to nations and peoples. Acts 10 thus makes use of standard Jewish apocalyptic tropes familiar to its audience but less familiar to modern readers.

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“…Dem. 2.2, 20-22;Harrington 1995), effectively treating that food as though it were holy. 22 Meat from a clean animal could also be rendered illicit 21.…”

Section: Contributions Of Peter's Vision To the Narrative: Pure/impurmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…2.5; t. Dem. 2.2, 20-22; Harrington 1995), effectively treating that food as though it were holy. 22 Meat from a clean animal could also be rendered illicit through idol-sacriﬁce, and the result of eating such deﬁled food would be to ‘make oneself common’ (cf.…”

Section: Contributions Of Peter’s Vision To the Narrative: Pure/impurmentioning

confidence: 99%