Claiming places : reading Acts through the lens of ancient colonization
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Claiming places : reading Acts through the lens of ancient colonization
（Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe ; 525）
Mohr Siebeck, c2020
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Bibliography: p. [229]-238
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How is Acts of the Apostles - its form and features - to be understood in light of the work's ancient Mediterranean cultural context? In the present study, Eric C. Moore offers a fresh response to this much-debated question, arguing for the utility of ancient colonization as an analytic lens for reading Acts, a story about the origins and replication of early Christianity. He explores how in narrating his account, Luke draws on a common stock of "foundation" motifs employed by ancient sources, textual and material alike, to glorify community beginnings.
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