Foreign but Familiar Gods
Greco-Romans Read Religion in Acts
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567080974
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 24/08/2006
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
Through a close and informative reading of seven key texts in Acts, Kauppi analyses the appearances of Graeco-Roman religion, offering evidence of practices including divination and oracles, ruler cult and civic foundation myth. Foreign But Familiar Gods then uses a combination of these scriptural texts and other contemporary evidence (including archaeological and literary material) to suggest that one of Luke's subsidiary themes is to contrast Graeco-Roman and Christian religious conceptualizations and practices.
1. Introduction; 2. Acts 1:15-26, 16:16-18: Greco-Roman Oracles; 3. Acts 12:20-23: Ruler Cult Excursus: Agrippa's QEOU FWNH; 4. Acts 14:8-19: Graeco-Roman Sacrifice; 5. Acts 17:16-34: Parallels and Allusions to Aeschylus' Eumenides; 6. Acts 19:23-41: Votive Offerings and Diopeths Objects; 7. Acts 28:1-11: Ecidna, Dikh, and the Dioskuroi; 8. Conclusions; Bibliography
Reviewed in German in Theologische Literaturzeitung 133, 2008