%0 Journal Article
%T Retelling Moses's Killing of the Egyptian: Acts 7 in Its                     Jewish Context
%A Dulcinea Boesenberg
%J Biblical Theology Bulletin
%@ 1945-7596
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0146107918781281
%X In his retelling of Moses's killing of the Egyptian in Acts 7:23每29, Luke casts Moses in the image of Jesus, as a rejected deliverer. Most scholarship on Acts 7:23每29 understands the overarching narrative of Acts as an explanation of the separation of Christianity from Judaism. The Israelites' rejection of Moses, which Luke reads into Exodus 2:11每15, is placed in parallel to the Jews' rejection of Jesus, which is understood as the impetus of Christianity's break from Judaism. I propose an alternative reading of Acts 7:23每29. Given that Luke's retelling of Exodus 2:11每15 has similarities with the retellings of the Egyptian Jewish writers Artapanus and Philo, and that Luke's use of Scripture to divide Israel into two streams has similarities with the Damascus Document's use of Scripture, I argue that Luke's retelling of Moses's killing of the Egyptian is best read within the Judaism of his time
%K Stephen's Speech
%K Moses
%K Interpretation
%K Jewish Identity
%K Sect
%K Artapanus
%K Philo of Alexandria
%K Damascus Document
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0146107918781281