Divine Visitations and Hospitality to Strangers in Luke-Acts: An Interpretation of the Malta Episode in Acts 28:1-10 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004255821)

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Divine Visitations and Hospitality to Strangers in Luke-Acts: An Interpretation of the Malta Episode in Acts 28:1-10

$208.00

Divine Visitations and Hospitality to Strangers in Luke-Acts: An Interpretation of the Malta Episode in Acts 28:1-10

$208.00
Format: Hardcover
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This study presents a coherent interpretation of the Malta episode by arguing that Acts 28:1-10 narrates a theoxeny, that is, an account of unknowing hospitality to a god which results in the establishment of a fictive kinship relationship between the Maltese barbarians and Paul and his God. In light of the connection between hospitality and piety to the gods in the ancient Mediterranean, Luke ends his second volume in this manner to portray Gentile hospitality as the appropriate response to Paul's message of God's salvation -- a response that portrays them as hospitable exemplars within the Lukan narrative and contrasts them with the Roman Jews who reject Paul and his message.

Author: Joshua W. Jipp
ISBN-10: 9004255826
ISBN-13: 9789004255821
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2013
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.00d
By Joshua W. Jipp
By Joshua W. Jipp
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Joshua W. Jipp, Ph.D. (2012), Emory University, is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has published articles on the New Testament in New Testament Studies, Journal of Biblical Literature, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, and Catholic Biblical Quarterly.

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