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GEOGRAPHY AND THE ASCENSION NARRATIVE IN ACTS ThebookofActscontainsastronggeographicalcomponent.Yet readings of Acts typically ignore or marginalise geography’s con- tribution to the construction of the narrative’s theology. In this book Matthew Sleeman argues that Jesus’ ascension into heaven isfoundationalforestablishingthe‘spatiality’ofActs,showingthat thenarrative’sunderstandingofplaceandspaceisshapeddecisively byChrist’sheavenlylocation.Drawingonrecentadvancesingeo- graphical theory, Sleeman offers a ‘spatial’ interpretation that expandsourvisionofhowspaceandplaceinformthetheological impulses of Acts. Presenting a complement to conventional ‘tem- poral’readingsofActs,heshedsnewlightonthetheologyofthe book,andsuggestsnewwaysofreadingnotonlyActsbutalsoother NewTestamenttexts. Sleeman’s work combines innovative biblical scholarship with accessible and informative geographical analysis, and is suitable forthosewithresearchandteachinginterestsinhumangeography orbiblicalstudies. MATTHEW SLEEMAN isLecturerinNewTestamentandGreekat OakHillTheologicalCollege,London. SOCIETY FOR NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES MONOGRAPH SERIES GeneralEditor:JohnM.Court 146 GEOGRAPHY AND THE ASCENSION NARRATIVE IN ACTS SOCIETY FOR NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES MONOGRAPH SERIES Recenttitlesintheseries 125. Jesus’DefeatofDeath PETER G. BOLT 126. FromHopetoDespairinThessalonica COLIN R. NICHOLL 127. Matthew’sTrilogyofParables WESLEY G. OLMSTEAD 128. ThePeopleofGodintheApocalypse STEPHEN PATTEMORE 129. TheExorcismStoriesinLuke-Acts TODD KLUTZ 130. Jews,GentilesandEthnicReconciliation TET-LIM N. YEE 131. AncientRhetoricandPaul’sApology FREDRICK J. LONG 132. ReconstructingHonorinRomanPhilippi JOSEPH H. HELLEMAN 133. TheologicalHermeneuticsand1Thessalonians ANGUS PADDISON 134. Greco-RomanCultureandtheGalileeofJesus MARK A. CHANCEY 135. ChristologyandDiscipleshipintheGospelofMark SUZANNE WATTS HENDERSON 136. TheJudaeanPoorandtheFourthGospel TIMOTHY J.M. LING 137. Paul,theStoics,andtheBodyofChrist MICHELLE LEE 138. TheBridegroomMessiahandthePeopleofGod JOCELYN MCWHIRTER 139. TheTornVeil DANIEL M. GURTNER 140. DiscerningtheSpirits ANDRÉ MUNZINGER 141. TheSheepoftheFold EDWARD W. KLINK III 142. ThePsalmsofLamentinMark’sPassion STEPHEN P. AHERNE-KROLL 143. CosmologyandEschatologyinHebrews KENNETH L. SCHENCK 144. TheSpeechesofOutsidersinActs OSVALDO PADILLA 145. TheAssumedAuthorialUnityofLukeandActs PATRICIA WALTERS Geography and the Ascension Narrative in Acts MATTHEW SLEEMAN CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,SãoPaulo,Delhi CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,CambridgeCB28RU,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521509626 ©MatthewSleeman2009 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithout thewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2009 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Sleeman,Matthew,1968– GeographyandtheAscensionnarrativeinActs/MatthewSleeman. p. cm.–(SocietyforNewTestamentstudies.Monographseries) Includesbibliographicalreferences. ISBN978-0-521-50962-6 1. SpaceperceptionintheBible. 2. Bible.N.T.Acts–Geography. 3. JesusChrist–Ascension. 4. Bible.N.T.Acts–Theology. 5. Bible.N.T.Acts–Criticism,Narrative. I. Title. II. Series. BS2625.6.S59S54 2009 226.60091–dc22 2009009345 ISBN978-0-521-50962-6hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityfor thepersistenceoraccuracyofURLsforexternalor third-partyInternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. ScripturequotationsarefromNewRevisedStandardVersionBible:AnglicizedEdition, copyright©1989,1995NationalCounciloftheChurchesofChristintheUnited StatesofAmerica.Usedbypermission.Allrightsreserved. ForKaren,andourchildren: Phoebe,David,ThomasandTabitha CONTENTS Acknowledgements pagex PartI Theory 1 1 Ascensionscholarshipattheturnofthecentury 3 2 Findingaplaceforascensiongeography 22 Synthesisandprospect 57 PartII Exegesis 61 3 Acts1:1–26 63 4 Acts2:1–6:7 93 5 Acts6:8–8:3 139 6 Acts8:4–9:31 174 7 Acts9:32–11:18 218 8 Concludingreflections 255 Bibliography 265 IndexofBiblereferences 288 Generalindex 294 ix

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GEOGRAPHY AND THE ASCENSION NARRATIVE IN ACTS ThebookofActscontainsastronggeographicalcomponent.Yet readings of Acts typically ignore or marginalise geography’s con- tribution to the construction of the narrative’s theology. In this book Matthew Sleeman argues that Jesus’ ascension into heaven isfoundationalforestablishingthe‘spatiality’ofActs,showingthat thenarrative’sunderstandingofplaceandspaceisshapeddecisively byChrist’sheavenlylocation.Drawingonrecentadvancesingeo- graphical theory, Sleeman offers a ‘spatial’ interpretation that expandsourvisionofhowspaceandplaceinformthetheological impulses of Acts. Presenting a complement to conventional ‘tem- poral’readingsofActs,heshedsnewlightonthetheologyofthe book,andsuggestsnewwaysofreadingnotonlyActsbutalsoother NewTestamenttexts. Sleeman’s work combines innovative biblical scholarship with accessible and informative geographical analysis, and is suitable forthosewithresearchandteachinginterestsinhumangeography orbiblicalstudies. MATTHEW SLEEMAN isLecturerinNewTestamentandGreekat OakHillTheologicalCollege,London. SOCIETY FOR NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES MONOGRAPH SERIES GeneralEditor:JohnM.Court 146 GEOGRAPHY AND THE ASCENSION NARRATIVE IN ACTS SOCIETY FOR NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES MONOGRAPH SERIES Recenttitlesintheseries 125. Jesus’DefeatofDeath PETER G. BOLT 126. FromHopetoDespairinThessalonica COLIN R. NICHOLL 127. Matthew’sTrilogyofParables WESLEY G. OLMSTEAD 128. ThePeopleofGodintheApocalypse STEPHEN PATTEMORE 129. TheExorcismStoriesinLuke-Acts TODD KLUTZ 130. Jews,GentilesandEthnicReconciliation TET-LIM N. YEE 131. AncientRhetoricandPaul’sApology FREDRICK J. LONG 132. ReconstructingHonorinRomanPhilippi JOSEPH H. HELLEMAN 133. TheologicalHermeneuticsand1Thessalonians ANGUS PADDISON 134. Greco-RomanCultureandtheGalileeofJesus MARK A. CHANCEY 135. ChristologyandDiscipleshipintheGospelofMark SUZANNE WATTS HENDERSON 136. TheJudaeanPoorandtheFourthGospel TIMOTHY J.M. LING 137. Paul,theStoics,andtheBodyofChrist MICHELLE LEE 138. TheBridegroomMessiahandthePeopleofGod JOCELYN MCWHIRTER 139. TheTornVeil DANIEL M. GURTNER 140. DiscerningtheSpirits ANDRÉ MUNZINGER 141. TheSheepoftheFold EDWARD W. KLINK III 142. ThePsalmsofLamentinMark’sPassion STEPHEN P. AHERNE-KROLL 143. CosmologyandEschatologyinHebrews KENNETH L. SCHENCK 144. TheSpeechesofOutsidersinActs OSVALDO PADILLA 145. TheAssumedAuthorialUnityofLukeandActs PATRICIA WALTERS Geography and the Ascension Narrative in Acts MATTHEW SLEEMAN CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,SãoPaulo,Delhi CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,CambridgeCB28RU,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521509626 ©MatthewSleeman2009 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithout thewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2009 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Sleeman,Matthew,1968– GeographyandtheAscensionnarrativeinActs/MatthewSleeman. p. cm.–(SocietyforNewTestamentstudies.Monographseries) Includesbibliographicalreferences. ISBN978-0-521-50962-6 1. SpaceperceptionintheBible. 2. Bible.N.T.Acts–Geography. 3. JesusChrist–Ascension. 4. Bible.N.T.Acts–Theology. 5. Bible.N.T.Acts–Criticism,Narrative. I. Title. II. Series. BS2625.6.S59S54 2009 226.60091–dc22 2009009345 ISBN978-0-521-50962-6hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityfor thepersistenceoraccuracyofURLsforexternalor third-partyInternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. ScripturequotationsarefromNewRevisedStandardVersionBible:AnglicizedEdition, copyright©1989,1995NationalCounciloftheChurchesofChristintheUnited StatesofAmerica.Usedbypermission.Allrightsreserved. ForKaren,andourchildren: Phoebe,David,ThomasandTabitha CONTENTS Acknowledgements pagex PartI Theory 1 1 Ascensionscholarshipattheturnofthecentury 3 2 Findingaplaceforascensiongeography 22 Synthesisandprospect 57 PartII Exegesis 61 3 Acts1:1–26 63 4 Acts2:1–6:7 93 5 Acts6:8–8:3 139 6 Acts8:4–9:31 174 7 Acts9:32–11:18 218 8 Concludingreflections 255 Bibliography 265 IndexofBiblereferences 288 Generalindex 294 ix

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