num_pages: 192
description: 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.
language: English
title: Foreign but Familiar Gods: Greco-Romans Read Religion in Acts
titlecomplete: Foreign but Familiar Gods: Greco-Romans Read Religion in Acts (The Library of New Testament Studies)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: T&T Clark