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Acts attempts the recategorization of Judean and non-Judean Christ followers … into a common ingr... more Acts attempts the recategorization of Judean and non-Judean Christ followers … into a common ingroup by presenting Peter and Paul as prototypical of a common superordinate Christian identity in the midst of diversity and conflict within the Christ movement in the last decade of the first century CE ” (p. xv). This recategorization is intended to establish the boundaries by which it can be seen who, from the Judean and Greco-Roman cultural groupings, is included in the Christian community and who is excluded from it. Drawing on narrative and reader-response approaches— especially Paul Ricoeur’s “three-fold process of narrative interaction ” (p. 71)—Baker moves away from the quest for the “historical ” Peter and Paul, past the “literary ” Peter and Paul, and on to what Baker calls “an identity-forming Peter and Paul ” (p. xvi). Baker proposes that such an approach builds on the vital but essentially incomplete social-scientific and literary approaches. The aim is to establish “a model...

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Coleman A. Baker, Peter, Paul, and Recategorization in the Book of Acts: Memory and Narrative in Early Christianity. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2011

In Identity, Memory and Narrative in Early Christianity, Coleman Baker argues that “the narrative... more In Identity, Memory and Narrative in Early Christianity, Coleman Baker argues that “the narrative of Acts attempts the recategorization of Judean and non-Judean Christ followers ... into a common ingroup by presenting Peter and Paul as prototypical of a common superordinate Christian identity in the midst of diversity and conflict within the Christ movement in the last decade of the first century CE” (p. xv). This recategorization is intended to establish the boundaries by which it can be seen who, from the Judean and Greco-Roman cultural groupings, is included in the Christian community and who is excluded from it. Drawing on narrative and reader-response approaches— especially Paul Ricoeur’s “three-fold process of narrative interaction” (p. 71)—Baker moves away from the quest for the “historical” Peter and Paul, past the “literary” Peter and Paul, and on to what Baker calls “an identity-forming Peter and Paul” (p. xvi). Baker proposes that such an approach builds on the vital but ...

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Coleman A. Baker, Peter, Paul, and Recategorization in the Book of Acts: Memory and Narrative in Early Christianity. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2011

In Identity, Memory and Narrative in Early Christianity, Coleman Baker argues that “the narrative... more In Identity, Memory and Narrative in Early Christianity, Coleman Baker argues that “the narrative of Acts attempts the recategorization of Judean and non-Judean Christ followers … into a common ingroup by presenting Peter and Paul as prototypical of a common superordinate Christian identity in the midst of diversity and conflict within the Christ movement in the last decade of the first century CE” (p. xv). This recategorization is intended to establish the boundaries by which it can be seen who, from the Judean and Greco-Roman cultural groupings, is included in the Christian community and who is excluded from it. Drawing on narrative and reader-response approaches— especially Paul Ricoeur’s “three-fold process of narrative interaction” (p. 71)—Baker moves away from the quest for the “historical” Peter and Paul, past the “literary” Peter and Paul, and on to what Baker calls “an identity-forming Peter and Paul” (p. xvi). Baker proposes that such an approach builds on the vital but es...

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Tat‐siong Benny Liew, What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? Reading the New Testament. Intersections: Asian and Pacific American …

The Bible and Critical Theory, 2011

In What is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics, Tat‐siong Benny Liew sets out to explore from a ... more In What is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics, Tat‐siong Benny Liew sets out to explore from a post‐colonial perspective how the New Testament and Asian American interpreters can interact. “Explore” is key here; Liew is not setting out a theory to be followed so much as a ...

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Tat‐siong Benny Liew, What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? Reading the New Testament. Intersections: Asian and Pacific American …

The Bible and Critical Theory, 2011

In What is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics, Tat‐siong Benny Liew sets out to explore from a ... more In What is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics, Tat‐siong Benny Liew sets out to explore from a post‐colonial perspective how the New Testament and Asian American interpreters can interact. “Explore” is key here; Liew is not setting out a theory to be followed so much as a ...

Research paper thumbnail of Publications, 2011

Acts attempts the recategorization of Judean and non-Judean Christ followers … into a common ingr... more Acts attempts the recategorization of Judean and non-Judean Christ followers … into a common ingroup by presenting Peter and Paul as prototypical of a common superordinate Christian identity in the midst of diversity and conflict within the Christ movement in the last decade of the first century CE ” (p. xv). This recategorization is intended to establish the boundaries by which it can be seen who, from the Judean and Greco-Roman cultural groupings, is included in the Christian community and who is excluded from it. Drawing on narrative and reader-response approaches— especially Paul Ricoeur’s “three-fold process of narrative interaction ” (p. 71)—Baker moves away from the quest for the “historical ” Peter and Paul, past the “literary ” Peter and Paul, and on to what Baker calls “an identity-forming Peter and Paul ” (p. xvi). Baker proposes that such an approach builds on the vital but essentially incomplete social-scientific and literary approaches. The aim is to establish “a model...

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Coleman A. Baker, Peter, Paul, and Recategorization in the Book of Acts: Memory and Narrative in Early Christianity. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2011

In Identity, Memory and Narrative in Early Christianity, Coleman Baker argues that “the narrative... more In Identity, Memory and Narrative in Early Christianity, Coleman Baker argues that “the narrative of Acts attempts the recategorization of Judean and non-Judean Christ followers ... into a common ingroup by presenting Peter and Paul as prototypical of a common superordinate Christian identity in the midst of diversity and conflict within the Christ movement in the last decade of the first century CE” (p. xv). This recategorization is intended to establish the boundaries by which it can be seen who, from the Judean and Greco-Roman cultural groupings, is included in the Christian community and who is excluded from it. Drawing on narrative and reader-response approaches— especially Paul Ricoeur’s “three-fold process of narrative interaction” (p. 71)—Baker moves away from the quest for the “historical” Peter and Paul, past the “literary” Peter and Paul, and on to what Baker calls “an identity-forming Peter and Paul” (p. xvi). Baker proposes that such an approach builds on the vital but ...

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Coleman A. Baker, Peter, Paul, and Recategorization in the Book of Acts: Memory and Narrative in Early Christianity. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2011

In Identity, Memory and Narrative in Early Christianity, Coleman Baker argues that “the narrative... more In Identity, Memory and Narrative in Early Christianity, Coleman Baker argues that “the narrative of Acts attempts the recategorization of Judean and non-Judean Christ followers … into a common ingroup by presenting Peter and Paul as prototypical of a common superordinate Christian identity in the midst of diversity and conflict within the Christ movement in the last decade of the first century CE” (p. xv). This recategorization is intended to establish the boundaries by which it can be seen who, from the Judean and Greco-Roman cultural groupings, is included in the Christian community and who is excluded from it. Drawing on narrative and reader-response approaches— especially Paul Ricoeur’s “three-fold process of narrative interaction” (p. 71)—Baker moves away from the quest for the “historical” Peter and Paul, past the “literary” Peter and Paul, and on to what Baker calls “an identity-forming Peter and Paul” (p. xvi). Baker proposes that such an approach builds on the vital but es...

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Tat‐siong Benny Liew, What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? Reading the New Testament. Intersections: Asian and Pacific American …

The Bible and Critical Theory, 2011

In What is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics, Tat‐siong Benny Liew sets out to explore from a ... more In What is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics, Tat‐siong Benny Liew sets out to explore from a post‐colonial perspective how the New Testament and Asian American interpreters can interact. “Explore” is key here; Liew is not setting out a theory to be followed so much as a ...

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Tat‐siong Benny Liew, What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? Reading the New Testament. Intersections: Asian and Pacific American …

The Bible and Critical Theory, 2011

In What is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics, Tat‐siong Benny Liew sets out to explore from a ... more In What is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics, Tat‐siong Benny Liew sets out to explore from a post‐colonial perspective how the New Testament and Asian American interpreters can interact. “Explore” is key here; Liew is not setting out a theory to be followed so much as a ...

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