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Plots of epiphany : prison-escape in Acts of the Apostles /

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 ev...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weaver, John B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, [2004]
Colección:Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche ; Beiheft 131.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.