Acts 15:1-29
- Reading the Text:
- NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
- Greek Interlinear Bible, ScrTR, ScrTR t, Strong, Parsing, CGTS, CGES id, AV.
- The Bible Gateway: NRSV, RSV, NIV, NASB, CEV, The Message, KJV, etc.
- The Blue Letter Bible. KJV, alternate versions, Greek text with concordance, commentaries.
- The World Wide Study Bible includes commentary & sermons.
- Historical References, Commentary and Comparative Texts:
- Comparative texts about Pharisees & Sadducees from Josephus, Tosefta, Mishnah & Babylonian Talmud. Primary texts about the Judean-Samaritan Feud and Samaritan Theology. At (Rutgers University Dept of Religion) Mahlon H. Smith's Into His Own: Perspective on the World of Jesus companion to the historical study of Christian texts.
- "Revealed to James," The Jesus Database, an online annotated inventory of the traditions concerning the life and teachings of Jesus. Dr. Gregory C. Jenks, FaithFutures Foundation.
- VIII.XXIX, Against Celsus, Origen. (c.246)
- From the Geneva Notes.
- From Matthew Henry's Commentary.
- Section IX, Evidences of the Christian Religion, Joseph Addison, c. 1715.
- From Wesley's Notes.
- From the Commentary on the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
- From The People's New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
- Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
- "Act, Understand, Collaborate," Commented Bible Passages from Taizé, 2008.
- "The Council of Jerusalem: Acts 15," J. Julius Scott, Jr., Wheaton College Distance Learning.
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"Avoiding Scandal,"
Larry Broding's Word-Sunday.Com: A
Catholic Resource for This Sunday's Gospel.
- "Sometimes, people prefer principle over the good of the community. This, of course, leads to scandal."
- Articles & Background:
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"The Language of Church and World," Athanasios N. Papathanasiou,
Ecumenical Review, 1999.
- "The church found itself before a crucial dilemma, which is first evident in the conflict whose eventual resolution is described in Acts 15:1-29. Either it would remain restricted to the Jewish cultural realities or it would open itself to the wider world. The church chose the second option, addressing itself to the nations and using their languages and ways of thinking."
- Acts 15: Gentiles as Gentiles in Davidic Promise and the Clarification of Paul's Offer of the Gospel in Acts 13 by Greg Herrick at Biblical Studies Foundation.
- "Meals, Food and Tablefellowship."
Jerome H.
Neyrey, in The Social Sciences and New Testament Interpretation,
159-82. R. L. Rohrbaugh, ed. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1996.
- "How can readers understand the particular ceremony of meals and table fellowship? Why are meals so important as symbols of broader social relationships? How can we peer below the surface and grasp the social dynamics encoded in meals and commensality, what anthropologists call "the language of meals"?"
- "Instances of Exegetical Closeness between the DSS and the New Testament, and Their Implications," Serge Ruzer, Orion center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 2004.
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"The Language of Church and World," Athanasios N. Papathanasiou,
Ecumenical Review, 1999.
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Recommended articles
from ATLAS, an online collection of religion and theology journals, are
linked below.
ATLAS Access options are available for academic institutions, alumni of
selected theological schools, and clergy/church offices.
- Blomberg, Craig L.,
"The New Testament Definition of Heresy (or When Do Jesus and the Apostles
Really Get Mad?)," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society,
2002.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Callan, Terrance,
"The Background of the Apostolic Decree (Acts 15:20, 29: 21:25)," The
Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1993.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Culpepper, R. Alan,
"Paul's Mission to the Gentile World: Acts 13-19," Review & Expositor,
1974.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Greene, John T.,
"Paul's Hermeneutic Versus Its Competitors," Journal of Religious
Thought, 1985.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Jefford, Clayton N.,
"Tradition and Witness in Antioch: Acts 15 and Didache 6,"
Perspectives in Religious Studies, 1992.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Lee, Mark,
"An Evangelical Dialogue on Luke, Salvation, and Spirit Baptism,"
Pneuma, 2004.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Malcolm, Lois,
"Conversion, Conversation, and Acts 15," Word & World, 2002.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - McMillan, David K.,
"Between Text and Sermon: Acts 15:22-31," Interpretation, 2001.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Proctor, John,
"Proselytes and Pressure Cookers: The Meaning and Application of Acts
15:20," International Review of Mission, 1996.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Reimer, Dalton,
"Phases in Problem Solving: A Biblical Model for the Christian Community,"
Direction, 1990.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Savelle, Charles H.,
"A Reexamination of the Prohibitions in Acts 15," Bibliotheca Sacra,
2004.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Seifrid, M.A.,
"Jesus and the Law in Acts," Journal for the Study of the New
Testament, 1987.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - van de Sandt, Huub,
"An Explanation of Acts 15:6-21 in the Light of Deuteronomy 4:29-35 (LXX),"
Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 1992.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Whitlock, David B.,
"An Exposition of Acts 15:1-29," Review & Expositor, 1995.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Wieser, Thomas,
"Community - Its Unity, Diversity and Universality," Semeia,
1985.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Wiarda, Timothy,
"The Jerusalem Council and the Theological Task," Journal of the
Evangelical Theological Society, 2003.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Blomberg, Craig L.,
"The New Testament Definition of Heresy (or When Do Jesus and the Apostles
Really Get Mad?)," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society,
2002.
- Sermons:
- "A Good Church Fight," the Rev. Dr. Davis Chappell, Day 1, 2012.
- With Children:
- "The Jerusalem Council," children's study, puzzles, coloring sheet, etc. Higher Praise Christian Center.
- Acts 15 Crossword, Don Crownover's Bible Puzzles.
- Drama:
- "A Devil of a Date," John McNeil, dramatix.
- Graphics & Bulletin Materials:
- Clip Art, Acts 15:28, Fr. Richard Lonsdale, Resources for Catholic Educators.
- Hymns and Music:
- Hymnary.org, hymns, scores, media, information.
- At Digital Hymnal (midi files, guitar chords, karaoke files, projection text):
- Fine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's Art Index:
- Study Links and Resources for the Book of Acts
