Foreign but Familiar Gods
Greco-Romans Read Religion in Acts| By: | Lynn Allan Kauppi |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury UK |
| Print ISBN: | 9780567080974 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780567641410 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2006 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.