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Endnote 6 - Circumcision of Gentile Converts

When Jews are “persuaded” in Acts, they are not necessarily converted; see esp. the conclusion of Paul’s first sermon in the synagogue at Antioch of Pisidia, Acts 13:43.

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Endnote 5 - Circumcision of Gentile Converts

Ernst Haenchen (“Judentum und Christentum in der Apostelgeschichte,” Zeitschrift fur die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 54 [1963], p. 175) refers to the synagogue scenes of Paul’s ministry in Acts as being done in “placard style.”

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Endnote 4 - Circumcision of Gentile Converts

For the variations, see again my The Jews in Luke-Acts, pp. 75–76.

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Endnote 3 - Circumcision of Gentile Converts

The Ethiopian eunuch is a proselyte, as can be inferred primarily from Isaiah 56:4–6. See my The Jews in Luke-Acts, pp. 151–153, and the other literature referred to there.

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See my The Jews in Luke-Acts (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987), p. 73; also Walter Radl, Paulus und Jesus im lukanischen Doppelwerk (Bern, Switz.: Herbert Lang; Frankfurt, Ger.: Peter Lang, 1975), pp. 236–237.