Do You Understand What You Are Reading? is an attempt to read the Ethiopian eunuch story in the historical, grammatical, and cultural contexts presented within the narrative of Acts. 1.
His audience includes Imperial eunuchs, whose salvation prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah had foretold, and who were Luke\'s contemporaries.
In the midst of tectonic shifts in Greco-Roman society, in Acts, Luke engages Greco-Roman culture on behalf of Promise.
Hijras).
Afterward, a general slaughter of eunuchs occurred throughout the Western empire; although, they may still be found in the east (e.g.
On the third day, he emerged and was promptly killed.
Eutropius stayed at the altar for three days after Chrysostom closed the sanctuary.
Eutropius had placed Chrysostom over his bishopric.
He ran to Church Father John Chrysostom\'s church.
The Syrian poet Claudian wrote and published a political invective attacking him, which focused social hostility toward him.
In 399, Eutropius-a eunuch, the first and only eunuch Consul in the Eastern Roman Empire-was murdered by his own troops.
The social climate became extremely hostile for high-ranking eunuchs as they were attacked in public culture-theater, music, poetry (spoken, written and sung).
Roman emperor Constantine (306-337) issued another edict banning making eunuchs.
Domitian was murdered by courtiers and castrated.
Roman emperor Domitian (81-96) issued an edict banning making eunuchs, while maintaining his own eunuch, Stephanus.
As Rome attracted the best and brightest from all cultures, positions held by Imperial eunuchs were coveted; they were national bureaucrats, priests, and confidants to monarchs.
It was a time of transformation in Western culture.
Many, not all, signified upon the Ethiopian character in ways that expressed disdain for Imperial eunuchs who were their contemporaries.
Soon after Luke wrote Acts, which is the only New Testament book of history, interpreters (Church Fathers) began wrestling with the moral-Promise-worldview it contained.
Do You Understand What You Are Reading? is an attempt to read the Ethiopian eunuch story in the historical, grammatical, and cultural contexts presented within the narrative of Acts
