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Pastor Hyun Ho Park (First United Methodist Church, Santa Rosa, USA)

Intergroup Conflict, Recategorization, and Identity Construction in Acts

Breaking the Cycle of Slander, Labeling and Violence

Pastor Hyun Ho Park (First United Methodist Church, Santa Rosa, USA)

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T.& T.Clark Ltd
07 March 2024

Christianity; New Testaments; Sacred texts

Series: The Library of New Testament Studies

Hyun Ho Park employs social identity to create the first thorough analysis via such methodology of Acts 21:17—23:35, which contains one of the fiercest intergroup conflicts in Acts. Park’s assessment allows his readers to rethink, reevaluate, and reimagine Jewish-Christian relations; teaches them how to respond to the vicious cycle of slander, labeling, and violence permeating contemporary public and private spheres; and presents a new hermeneutical cycle and describes how readers may apply it to their own sociopolitical contexts.

After surveying previous studies of the text, Park first analyses

Paul’s welcome, questioning, and arrest, and how slandering and labeling make

Paul an outsider. Park then describes how, through defending his Jewish

identity and the Way, Paul nuances his public image and re-categorizes

himself and the Way as part of the people of God. When Paul identifies himself

as a Roman and later a Pharisee, Park examines Luke’s ambivalent attitude

toward Rome and the Pharisees, and assesses how Paul escapes dangerous

situations by claiming different social identities at different times.

Finally, he discloses the vicious cycle of slander, labeling, and violence

not only against the Way but also against the Jews and challenges the

discursive process of identity construction through intergroup conflict with

an out-group, especially the proximate “Other.” Furthermore, he demonstrates how the relevance of such scholarship is

not limited to Lukan

studies or even biblical studies in

general; the

frequent use of

slander, labeling, and violence in the politics

of

the United States

and other polarized countries around the globe

demands

new ways of

looking at intergroup relations, and Park's

argument meets the needs of

those seeking a new perspective on

contemporary political discord.

By: Pastor Hyun Ho Park (First United Methodist Church Santa Rosa USA)
Imprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: POD FIRST
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780567713278
ISBN 10: 056771327X
Series: The Library of New Testament Studies
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 07 March 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: Preliminary Considerations Chapter 2: The Social Identity Approach and Dual Identity Chapter 3: Slander against Paul and the Labeling of Paul as an Outsider (Acts 21:17–40) Chapter 4: Recategorizing Paul as an Insider (Acts 22:1–21) Chapter 5: Ambivalence and the Social Creativity of Paul as an Outsider/Insider (Acts 22:22—23:11) Chapter 6: Challenging the Vicious Cycle of Slander, Labeling, and Violence (Acts 23:12–35) Conclusion Bibliography Index

Hyun Ho Park is Associate Pastor of the First United Methodist Church, USA, and Editor-in-Chief of the Asian American Theological Forum.