Plots of Epiphany
Prison-Escape in Acts of the Apostles
(Sprache: Englisch)
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The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZNW) is one of the oldest and most highly regarded international scholarly book series in the field of New Testament studies. Since 1923 it has been a forum for seminal works focusing on Early Christianity and related fields. The series is grounded in a historical-critical approach and also explores new methodological approaches that advance our understanding of the New Testament and its world.
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Past scholarship on the prison-escapes in the Acts of the Apostles has tended to focus on lexical similarities to Euripides' Bacchae, going so far as to argue for direct literary dependence. Moving beyond such explanations, the present study argues that miraculous prison-escape was a central event in a traditional and culturally significant story about the introduction and foundation of cults - a story discernable in the Bacchae and other ancient texts. When the mythic quality and cultural diffusion of the prison-escape narratives are taken into account, the resemblance of Lukan and Dionysian narrative episodes is seen to depend less on specific literary borrowing, and more on shared familiarity with cultural discourses involving the legitimating portrayal of new cults in the ancient world.
Der Autor vergleicht die drei Erzhlungen der Apostelgeschichte ber Gefngnisausbrche mit anderen Befreiungswundern in griechisch-rmischen und jdischen Mythen. Eine Analyse dieser Geschichten und ihrer konventionellen Darstellung gttlicher Epiphanie und Kultbegrndung ermglicht neue Einblicke in den kulturellen Kontext und die narrative Darstellung frhchristlicher Geschichte in der Apostelgeschichte.
Autoren-Porträt von John B. Weaver
Ph.D. dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Carl Holladay, Emory University.John B. Weaver is now the Reference and Periodicals Librarian at Pitts Theology Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: John B. Weaver
- 2004, Reprint 2012, XII, 335 Seiten, 5 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 15,5 x 23 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: De Gruyter
- ISBN-10: 3110182661
- ISBN-13: 9783110182668
Sprache:
Englisch
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"W.s Studie ist eine luzide, methodisch wie inhaltlich überzeugende Untersuchung der Befreiungswunder der Apg."Theologische Rundschau 3/2008 "A careful study which adduces a wealth of comparative material for understanding Luke's apparently artless narratives."Loveday Alexander in: Booklist 5/2006 "[...] all who specialize in [Luke and) Acts will do well to place Plots of Epiphany on their must read? lists. Epiphanies await."Richard I. Pervo in: The Journal of Religion 3/2006 "The volume is rounded out by a bibliography and useful indexes opf sources, subjects, and modern authors. Weaver has presented a learned and very readable interpretation of Acts' prison-escape stories as cultic foundation legend. His myth-critical apporach is a stimulating development of older from-critical studies."Heike Omerzu in: Catholic Biblical Quarterly 67/2005
Pressezitat
"W.s Studie ist eine luzide, methodisch wie inhaltlich überzeugende Untersuchung der Befreiungswunder der Apg."Theologische Rundschau 3/2008 "A careful study which adduces a wealth of comparative material for understanding Luke's apparently artless narratives."Loveday Alexander in: Booklist 5/2006 "[...] all who specialize in [Luke and) Acts will do well to place Plots of Epiphany on their "must read lists. Epiphanies await."Richard I. Pervo in: The Journal of Religion 3/2006 "The volume is rounded out by a bibliography and useful indexes opf sources, subjects, and modern authors. Weaver has presented a learned and very readable interpretation of Acts' prison-escape stories as cultic foundation legend. His 'myth-critical apporach' is a stimulating development of older from-critical studies."Heike Omerzu in: Catholic Biblical Quarterly 67/2005
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