Strange Acts: Studies in the Cultural World of the Acts of the Apostles
Dec 2014 · Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft Book 126 · Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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This book examines many of the strange events and actions in Acts in the context of the Hellenistic world and from that perspective. These events and actions include the ascension of Jesus, direction by the Spirit, visions, angelophanies, prison escapes and resuscitations of the dead. Many of these events are either avoided in scholarship or are investigated with an agenda other than to understand them for themselves. The book constructs an ancient audience to be one that has a close familiarity with the Septuagint and with other Greek and Latin writings. The culturally-strange events are then interpreted through the lens of these texts.
About the author
Rick Strelan is Senior Lecturer in Studies in Religion at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He has published a revision of his PhD thesis as 'Paul, Artemis and the Jews in Ephesus' (1996, BZNW 80) and a number of articles on cultural aspects of the New Testament world, especially as found in the Acts of the Apostles.
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