Re: Stoning -- Mimetic Theory and Literary Study

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Date Posted: 12:47:13 02/13/08 Wed
Author: Kiernan
Subject: Re: Stoning
In reply to: Betsy Peters 's message, "Stoning" on 05:00:57 02/04/08 Mon

Looking at Acts 7:54-60 on the stoning of Stephen, I was struck, even on a rudimentary level, with how much it accords with the mechanism we've studied thus far, except from a different perspective. An interesting detail stuck out to me. The text notes that "Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul" (58). According to the teaching I heard on this passage, this Saul is the Saul who later becomes Paul. It is interesting that this notes separates him from the communal violence while making him a participant. On the one hand, Paul did not raise a stone against Stephen (or, perhaps he did, perhaps I'm reading the text completely incorrectly); on the other, he stands as a spectator of the scene. What effect would this particular event, and its ramifications, have on the later conversion and ministry of Paul, with him watching as a spectator (like a theatre-goer) this scene of communal violence?

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Re: Stoning -- Betsy Peters, 14:45:05 02/16/08 Sat