Leadership and Lifestyle: The Portrait of Paul in the Miletus Speech and 1 Thessalonians (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series)

272 Pages·2000·1.109 MB·English

by  Steve Walton

Leadership and Lifestyle:
The portrait of Paul in
the Miletus speech
and 1 Thessalonians
STEVE WALTON
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
ThisstudycontributestodebateabouttheportraitsofPaulinActsandhis
epistlesbyconsideringPaul’sMiletusspeech(Acts20.18b–35)andidenti-
fies and compares major themes in Luke and Paul’s views of Christian
leadership.ComparisonswithJesus’speechesinLukeshowhowLukanthe
speechisand,with1Thessalonians,howPaulineitis.
Thespeechcallsthe Ephesian eldersto serviceafterPaul’sdepartureto
Jerusalem, focusing on: faithful fulfilment of leadership responsibility;
suffering; attitudes to wealth and work; and the death of Jesus. Paul
modelsChristianleadershipfortheelders.
ParallelsinLukehighlighthisviewofChristianleadership–modelledby
Jesus and taught to his disciples, and modelled by Paul and taught to the
elders.Studyof1Thessaloniansidentifiesaremarkablysimilarportraitof
Christian leadership. The Miletus speech is close in thought, presentation
andvocabularytoanearly,indubitablyPaulineletter.
AnordainedpriestandformerchaplaintotheBishopofStAlbans,Steve
Walton is Lecturer in Greek and New Testament Studies at the London
BibleCollege.AuthorofACalltoLive:VocationforEveryone(1994)and
numerous articles, he is a member of the British New Testament Society,
theSocietyforBiblicalLiterature,andtheTyndaleFellowshipforBiblical
andTheologicalResearch.
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SOCIETY FOR NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES
MONOGRAPH SERIES
GeneralEditor:RichardBauckham
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LEADERSHIP AND LIFESTYLE
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Leadership and Lifestyle
TheportraitofPaulintheMiletusspeech
and1Thessalonians
STEVE WALTON
LondonBibleCollege
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© Cambridge University Press 2000
This edition © Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) 2003

First published in printed format 2000

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Original ISBN 0 521 78006 3 hardback

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In memory of
Ruby Walton and Colin Hemer
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements page xi
Abbreviations xiii
1 WhystudytheMiletusspeech? 1
1.1 ThePaulofActs/Pauloftheepistlesdebate 2
1.2 Luke’sknowledgeofthePaulineepistles 14
1.3 Reviewofpreviousworkonthespeech 17
1.4 Orientationofthisstudy 32
2 Areparallelsintheeyeofthebeholder? 34
2.1 Introduction 34
2.2 ParallelisminLuke-Acts 34
2.3 WhatkindofunityhaveLukeandActs? 40
2.4 Ahierarchyofconnections 44
2.5 ActsandthePaulineparallels 47
2.6 Conclusion 51
3 TheMiletusspeechincontext 52
3.1 Immediatecontext 52
3.2 Literarygenre 55
3.3 Structure 66
3.4 Overviewofcontents 75
3.5 Themes 84
EXCURSUS 1: THE TEXT AND TRANSLATION
OF ACTS 20.28b 94
4 TheMiletusspeechandLuke’sGospel 99
4.1 Introduction 99
4.2 Luke22.14–38 100
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