P. Derek Overfield PhD Thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText

Sinai the Jews heard the words split into seven-ty
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tongues. But Caird's argument neglects two
important points.
Firstly, in the Early Churcn we
have no evidence of Ps 67 being part of the tradition
concerning the gift of the Spirit; the theory put
fonvG.:Ca. DY LindG.:Cs Jche:t Ps 67 :19 in i-ts undeveloped
form lies behind AcJes 2: 33 and 5: 31 we have aireaa.y
Sr:O\vl1 to be untenable.
Secondly, and even of more
i;T,portance, is t:'1e fact that the ascension -theme in
Acts 1-2 is not a unified theme.
As "ve have seen in
Chapter 1 there is a tradition in the
, speech in Acts
2: 14-36 \'Ir-.:.icll is very differel''J:t f:COiTl the -traci ~iOlJ. l~-:
~:cesent
form to Jewish
already pointed ouJe I
the tradition of the ascensio;.'1
in Acts 2: 14-36 (which is a non-Lucan tradi tion) ~~no"'ls
noJehing of an ascension or outpouring of the Spirit
as events
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separa~e Lrom le resurreC~lon. The
fact that the tradition in Eph 1:20-23 is related to
Jehe tradition in Acts 2: 14-36 speaks decisively againsJc
the argument advanced by caird.
The liturgical argument accepted by
Caird is referred to in more de·tail by J.C. Kirby.
He shows that in the Jewish Liturgy the Psalms for
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