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.
Reviewed in German in Theologische Literaturzeitung 133, 2008