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Author Weaver, John B

Title Plots of epiphany : prison-escape in Acts of the Apostles / John B. Weaver
Published Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (347 pages)
Series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche ; Band 131
Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche ; Beiheft 131.
Contents Prison-escape and myth-criticism -- Epiphanic rescue from prison in ancient myth and history -- "Beginning from Jerusalem" : prison-escape and the mythopoesis of Christian origins in Acts 1-7 -- Rescue and regicide : the poetics and politics of group validation in Acts 12 -- "A door of faith opened to the Gentiles" : prison epiphany and cult foundation in Acts 16
Summary 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
Notes Slight Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Emory University, 2004
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-314) and indexes
Notes In English
Print version record
SUBJECT Bible. Acts -- Criticism, Form
Bible. Acts fast
Bibel Apostelgeschichte gnd
Subject Miracles -- Comparative studies
Escapes -- Mythology -- Comparative studies
Myth in the Bible.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Jesus, the Gospels & Acts.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
Miracles
Myth in the Bible
Gefangenenbefreiung
Epiphanie
Zeithintergrund
Handelingen der Apostelen (bijbelboek)
Gevangenschap.
Ontsnappingen.
Genre/Form Comparative studies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110915617
3110915618