Strange Acts

Studies in the Cultural World of the Acts of the Apostles

By:

Rick Strelan

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Hardback

Series:

Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Fur Die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

June 24th, 2004

Author

Rick Strelan

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Professional & Vocational

Edition

Reprint 2014

Pages

353

Series

Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Fur Die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft

Dimensions

155x230x21

ISBN-13

9783110182002

Product ID

6397056

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