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 Godsthen 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.
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 8. CONCLUSIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY
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