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The Portrayal of Aquila and Priscilla in Acts: The Question of Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 September 2008

WILLIAM O. WALKER
Affiliation:
Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 78209–3822, USA

Abstract

This study argues in three stages that virtually everything the Book of Acts says about Aquila and Priscilla can be derived or inferred from materials in the Pauline letters or can plausibly be attributed to the author's own literary, theological, and/or apologetic agenda. The argument supports the following propositions: (a) that the author of Acts knew and used at least some of the Pauline letters, (b) that Acts reflects a distinctly anti-feminist bias, (c) that the author's agenda included an anti-Marcionite component, and (d) that Acts is to be dated in the second century and perhaps as late as the middle of the century.

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Articles
Copyright
2008 Cambridge University Press

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