Foreign but Familiar Gods: Greco-Romans Read Religion in Acts
Foreign but Familiar Gods: Greco-Romans Read Religion in Acts

Foreign but Familiar Gods: Greco-Romans Read Religion in Acts

in Library of New Testament Studies

by Lynn Allan Kauppi

Pages 224
Publisher T&T Clark
Published 2006
ISBN-13 9780567080974
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.

  • Table of contents
  • 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
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography

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