Strategies of Ambiguity in Acts
by
Sean D. Burke
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Were eunuchs more usually castrated guardians of the harem, as florid Orientalist portraits imagine them, or were they trusted court officials who may never have been castrated? Was the Ethiopian eunuch a Jew or a Gentile, a slave or a free man? Why does Luke call him a “man” while contemporaries...