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Acts, Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible

Acts, Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible Book Reviews / Pneuma 29 (2007) 311-363 349 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/157007407X238169 Jaroslav Pelikan, Acts , Brazos Th eological Commentary on the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2005). 320 pp., $29.99, cloth. This is a different kind of commentary from anything that most readers of Pneuma will have encountered — and that is probably an understatement. It is indeed a theologi- cal commentary on Acts, but it concentrates not on (Luke’s) original authorial mean- ing (see the disclaimer on p. 26), but on such early “canonical” reading(s) as might chiefly be represented by the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed (381 AD) and in its patristic contributors and interpreters. That means, in the first place, that the Greek text examined is what Pelikan labels throughout as the TPR (short for textus a patribus receptus , meaning not Stephanus’s “received text,” but that text “generally received” by the early fathers: something much closer to the so-called “Western Text” of Acts). In the second place, it means that he finds particularly valuable the ancient commentar- ies by Chrysostom (fifth century), Cassiodorus (sixth century), Bede (eighth century) and Theophylact (eleventh century). For modern guides he claims that he looked principally http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pneuma Brill

Acts, Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible

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Pneuma , Volume 29 (2): 349 – Jan 1, 2007
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© 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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10.1163/157007407X238169
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Book Reviews / Pneuma 29 (2007) 311-363 349 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/157007407X238169 Jaroslav Pelikan, Acts , Brazos Th eological Commentary on the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2005). 320 pp., $29.99, cloth. This is a different kind of commentary from anything that most readers of Pneuma will have encountered — and that is probably an understatement. It is indeed a theologi- cal commentary on Acts, but it concentrates not on (Luke’s) original authorial mean- ing (see the disclaimer on p. 26), but on such early “canonical” reading(s) as might chiefly be represented by the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed (381 AD) and in its patristic contributors and interpreters. That means, in the first place, that the Greek text examined is what Pelikan labels throughout as the TPR (short for textus a patribus receptus , meaning not Stephanus’s “received text,” but that text “generally received” by the early fathers: something much closer to the so-called “Western Text” of Acts). In the second place, it means that he finds particularly valuable the ancient commentar- ies by Chrysostom (fifth century), Cassiodorus (sixth century), Bede (eighth century) and Theophylact (eleventh century). For modern guides he claims that he looked principally

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