REF. [LCA35_05]
= Paper =
by Étienne NODET, in PINCHARD L. and HAELEWYCK J.-C. (eds.), Traditions et Traductions des textes bibliques. Études de critique textuelle et d’exégèse en l’honneur de Prof. Christian-Bernard Amphoux à l’occasion de son 80e anniversaire (Langues et cultures anciennes, 35), Brussels, 2023.
The book of Acts is built like a funnel, which brings together the multifaceted posterity of Jesus, culminating upon Paul’s arrival in Rome. The study proceeds in several stages. 1) The Gospels are from the second century; Marcion's testimony matters. 2) Acts was paired with Luke through a double prologue to Theophilus, a generic disciple of Paul who would like to know more of Jesus’s doings, about which Ac and Paul are virtually silent. 3) The Western Text of Acts should be taken very seriously. 4) Thanks to Barnabas, Saul-Paul was recovered at Antioch for the mission. 5) The term “Christian”, of Latin formation, first designated the messianizing agitation aroused by the project of Caligula to put his own statue in the temple of Jerusalem, in 39-40. 6) The Seven “deacons” represent as many movements stemming from Jesus; there were even Carpocratians, attached to a secret gospel of Mc.
Keywords: Textual criticism (NT), Early Church, the Seven (“deacons”), Paul, Barnabas, Christians, Marcion, Pseudo-Clement
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