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Peter's Halakhic Nightmare The 'animal' vision of Acts 10:9-16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective

:	John R.L. Moxon
:	Peter's Halakhic Nightmare The 'animal' vision of Acts 10:9-16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective
:	Mohr Siebeck
:	9783161535420
:	Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe
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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.

Born 1960; 1990 DPhil, University of Oxford; 2011 PhD University of Durham; 2011-14 Director of Studies, Mattersey Hall College; since 2014 Senior Lecturer, Dept. Humanities, Roehampton University.

	Cover	1
	Preface	8
	Table of Contents	12
	Abbreviations	20
	Chapter 1: Introduction	28
	1.1 Purpose, Method and Approach	28
	1.1.1 Aims	28
	1.1.2 Literature Review	29
	1.1.3 Presuppositions and Method	30
	1.1.4 Possible Significance	32
	1.2 Peter's Vision: Outline, Contexts and Controversies	33
	1.2.1 Structure and Sequence	33
	1.2.2 Gentile Mission, Table-Fellowship and Conversion	34
	1.2.3 Abolition and Alternatives	35
	1.2.4 An Unusual Kind of	35
	1.2.4 An Unusual Kind of	35
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	1.3 Redactional, Form-Critical and Literary Perspectives	41
	1.3.1 Tradition and Redaction	41
	1.3.2 Form Criticism	43
	1.3.3 Narrative and Functional Readings	45
	1.3.4 Conclusions	48
	1.4 Intertextual Readings of Acts 10:1?11:18	48
	1.4.1 Old Testament	50
	1.4.2 New Testament	54
	1.4.3 Graeco-Roman	60
	1.4.4 Conclusions	63
	1.5 Peter's Vision ? Fresh Observations and New Questions	64
	1.5.1 Deixis	64
	1.5.2 Form	65
	1.5.3 Content	66
	1.5.4 Interpretation	67
	1.5.5 Genre	68
	1.5.6 Conclusions	69
	1.6 Summary and Plan of Investigation	70
	1.7 A Note on the Appendices	72
	Chapter 2: Halakhic Intertexture of Peter's Vision	75
	2.1 Introduction	75
	2.2 Halakhic Background	76
	2.2.1 Jewish Law in the First Century ? Problems of Definition	76
	2.2.2 Explicit and Implicit Issues in Acts 10:1?11:18	79
	2.2.3 The Biblical Laws	81
	2.2.4 Halakhic Intensification and the Rhetoric of Separation	88
	2.2.5 Association and Table-Fellowship in Theory and Practice	92
	2.2.6 Luke's Portrayal of the Jerusalem Stance	94
	2.2.7 Initial Questions for the Interpretation of the Dream	95
	2.3 Peter's Vision in Halakhic Perspective	96
	2.3.1 Introduction	96
	2.3.2 The Visual Scene	97
	2.3.3 The Command	98
	2.3.4 The Problem	100
	2.3.5 The Refusal: ???????, ????? ...	105
	2.3.6 The Riposte ? ? ? ???? ??????????	109
	2.3.7 The Repeats and the Closure of the Vision	116
	2.3.8 The Dialogue as Halakhic Discourse	116
	2.3.9 Peter's Vision in Halakhic Perspective ? Summary	119
	2.4 Conclusions and Further Questions	121
	Chapter 3: Dreams and Visions ?????? Form and Interpretation	125
	3.1 Introduction	125
	3.1.1 Orientation	125
	3.1.2 Organisation and Use of Appendix	127
	3.2 Phenomena, Definitions and Terminology	127
	3.2.1 Contexts and Definitions	127
	3.2.2 Terminology	135
	3.3 The Form-Critical Categories of Oppenheim	135
	3.3.1 Outer Form/Frame	136
	3.3.2 Message Dreams	136
	3.3.3 Symbolic Dreams	137
	3.3.4 Variations and Developments	137
	3.3.5 Critique	139
	3.4 Survey of Dreams and Visions	144
	3.4.1 ANE and Hebrew Bible	146
	3.4.2 Ancient and Classical Greek Tradition	153
	3.4.3 Popular, Therapeutic and Personal Dream Accounts	160
	3.4.4 Hellenistic and Roman Historiography	166
	3.4.5 Hellenistic and Roman Biography	169
	3.4.6 Hellenistic and Roman Epic and Fiction	172
	3.4.7 Apocrypha, Josephus, Gospels and Acts	176
	3.5 Conclusions	189
	Chapter 4: Natural and Anxiety Dreams	192
	4.1 Introduction	192
	4.2 Natural Dreaming	193
	4.2.1 Seeing and Memory	193
	4.2.2 Body and Health	194
	4.2.3 Food and Drink	195
	4.2.4 Circumstances and Desires	195
	4.2.5 Morality and Character	196
	4.2.6 Natural Prescience and Dream Cognition	197
	4.2.7 Natural Dreaming in Literary Settings	199
	4.3 Overtones of Natural Dreaming in Peter's Vision	202
	4.4 Anxiety Dreams and Nightmares	209
	4.4.1 Introduction and Problems of Definition	209
	4.4.2 Treatment in Dream Theory and Literary Representation	210
	4.4.3 Forms and Motifs	212
	4.4.4 Bad Dreams and the Principle of Opposites	223
	4.5 Anxiety and Nightmare Motifs in Peter's Vision<