Criminalization as Contextual Prism: Rendering Acts for Contextual Biblical Criticism.
This article reviews Jeremy L. Williams's 2024 volume *Criminalization in Acts of the Apostles*, which introduces the Analysis for Rhetorical Criminalization (ARC) as a framework to interpret the New Testament book of Acts within its Roman imperial context. Williams situates criminalization as a soc...
| Publicado en: | Religious Studies Review (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 49 - 55 |
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