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76. Clarice J. Martin, "A Chamberlain's Journey and the Challenge of Interpretation for Liberation," Semeia 47 (1989): 105-135. Back

77. Acts 8:29, 39. Back

78. Luke 4:18; 24:44; Acts 1:8; 4:8-10; 7:55; 10:11-12; 13:4-10; 16:6-7. Back

79. Luke 1:1-4; 24:48; Acts 1:21-22; 4:33; 10:39-41; 22:14-15. Back

80. Luke 1:44; 2:10; 15:4-7; 19:6, 37; 24:41; Acts 2:47; 8:8; 11:18; 16:33. Back

81. Martin, "A Chamberlain's Journey," 106-107. Back

82. Ibid., 107-10. For a description of the procedures of ethnographic research, see James L. Peacock, The Anthropological Lens: Harsh Light, Soft Focus (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986): 48-91. Instead of going physically to a particular location like anthropologists do, the researcher of antiquity does "fieldwork" in the literature, art and other cultural artifacts available in libraries, museums, etc. For another ethnographic study in New Testament literature, see Susan R. Garrett, The Demise of the Devil: Magic and the Demonic in Luke's Writings (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989). Back

83. Frank M. Snowden, Jr., Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979); idem, "Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman World," in The African Diaspora: Interpretive Essays, ed. Martin L. Kilson and Robert I Rottbert (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976): 11-36; idem, "Iconographical Evidence on the Black Populations in Greco-Roman Antiquity," in The Image of the Black in Western Art. From the Pharoah to the Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1, ed. Ladislas Bugner (New York: William Morrow, 1976): 133-245. Back

84. Snowden, Blacks in Antiquity, 23. Back

85. Martin, "A Chamberlain's Journey and the Challenge of Interpretation for Liberation," 111. Back

86. Ibid., 110-14. Back

87. See Roger Fowler, "Text and Context" in Linguistic Criticism, 85-101 for a discussion of "context of utterance," "context of culture," and "context of reference" in literary analysis. Back

88. Cain Felder, "Racial Ambiguities in the Biblical Narratives," in The Church and Racism, Concilium 151, ed. Gregory Baum and John Coleman (New York: Seabury, 1982): 22. Back

89. The Westminster Historical Atlas to the Bible, edited by G. E. Wright and F. V. Filson (London: SCM, 1945): 22. Back

90. Martin, "A Chamberlain's Journey and the Challenge of Interpretation for Liberation," 120-26. Back

91. Ibid., 126. Back

92. Fowler, Linguistic Criticism, 85-101. Back

93. E.g., Jacob Neusner, "Death-Scenes and Farewell Stories: An Aspect of the Master-Disciple Relationship in Mark and in Some Talmudic Tales," in Christians among Jews and Chrristians: Essays in Honor of Krister Stendahl on His Sixty-fifth Birthday, ed. G. W. E. Nickelsburg with G. W. MacRae, S.J. (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986); F. Gerald Downing, "The Social Contexts of Jesus the Teacher: Construction or Reconstruction," NTS (1987): 439-51; B. L. Melbourne, Slow to Understand (1988); M. A. Beavis, Mark's Audience (1989); Philip Sellew, "Composition of Didactic Scenes in Mark's Gospel," JBL 108 (1989): 613-


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