Abstract
There are ten cases of staring in Acts. The disciples stare into heaven as Jesus ascends (1:10), and Stephen stares into heaven at his stoning (7:55); Peter and Paul stare at men they are about to heal (3:4; 14:9); Paul stares at Bar Jesus before cursing him (13:9), and at the Sanhedrin before addressing them (23:1); the crowd stares in wonder at Peter (3:12) and the Sanhedrin stares at Stephen (6:15); Cornelius stares at a visiting angel (10:4) and Peter stares into a sheet from heaven (11:6). In each case, the Greek verb ἀτeνἰζeιν is used; only once is it the main verb (3:12); once it is used in the periphrastic tense (1:10); and in every other case, the aorist participle is used with the main verb being either eἶπeν or eἶδeν / eἶδον. This article intends to explore the use and meaning of this verb in the wider literature and so to offer a fuller understanding of these strange stares in Acts. © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 1999
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