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Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen
zum Neuen Testament · 2. Reihe
Herausgeber / Editor
Jörg Frey (Zürich)
Mitherausgeber/Associate Editors
Markus Bockmuehl (Oxford) · James A. Kelhoffer (Uppsala)
Tobias Nicklas (Regensburg) · Janet Spittler (Charlottesville, VA)
J. Ross Wagner (Durham, NC)
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Kai Akagi
Proclaiming the Judge

of the Living and the Dead
The Christological Significance of Judgement
in Acts 10 and 17
Mohr Siebeck
Kai Akagi, born 1987; 2017 PhD in New Testament from the University of St Andrews, UK;
2017 Adjunct Instructor in Biblical Studies at The Master’s University, Santa Clarita, Califor-
nia, USA; since 2018 Independent Researcher and Missionary.
orcid.org/0000-0001-5113-4904
ISBN 978-3-16-156903-6 / eISBN 978-3-16-156904-3

DOI 10.1628 / 978-3-16-156904-3
ISSN 0340-9570 / eISSN 2568-7484 (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testa-
ment, 2. Reihe)
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zum Neuen Testament · 2. Reihe

Proclaiming the Judge

ISBN 978-3-16-156903-6 / eISBN 978-3-16-156904-3

© 2019 Mohr Siebeck Tübingen, Germany. www.mohrsiebeck.com

1. The Question of Jesus and Judgment in Acts 10:42 and 17:31

2. The Intersection of Three Fields ................................................................ 

3. An Approach to Christology and Judgment in Acts 10 and 17

4. Conclusion and Outline

1. Method for Analysis

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1. Previous Study of Acts 10:34–43

2. Acts 10:42 and Divine Authority

3. Acts 10:42 and Messianic Identity

4. Excursus: Jesus as Ƽ÷üþ÷ ôǂúóøÏ in 10:36

5. The Nature of Jesus in Acts 10:34–43

2. Correspondence with Stoicism?

3. Jesus’s Judgment in Acts 17:31 and Divine Authority

4. Jesus’s Judgment in Acts 17:31 Expresses Messianic Identity

5. The Nature of Jesus in Acts 17:22–31

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2.1 Studies of the Acts Speeches and Early Christian Proclamation

2.1.1 Form-Critical Studies and Early Christian Kerygma

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2.1.2 Rhetorical Studies of the Acts Speeches

2.1.3 Studies of the Speeches in the Acts Narrative

2.2 Studies of Lukan Theology and Christology

2.2.1 Hans Conzelmann

2.2.2 Darrell L. Bock

2.2.3 H. Douglas Buckwalter

2.2.4 Christopher M. Tuckett

2.2.5 C. Kavin Rowe

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1. The Question of Jesus and Judgment in Acts 10:42 and 17:31

2. The Intersection of Three Fields ................................................................

3. An Approach to Christology and Judgment in Acts 10 and 17

4. Conclusion and Outline

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1. Previous Study of Acts 10:34–43

2. Acts 10:42 and Divine Authority

3. Acts 10:42 and Messianic Identity

4. Excursus: Jesus as Ƽ÷üþ÷ ôǂúóøÏ in 10:36

5. The Nature of Jesus in Acts 10:34–43

2. Correspondence with Stoicism?

3. Jesus’s Judgment in Acts 17:31 and Divine Authority

4. Jesus’s Judgment in Acts 17:31 Expresses Messianic Identity

5. The Nature of Jesus in Acts 17:22–31

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