Ambivalent Appropriation: Engagement with Apollo in Jewish and Christian Texts and Material Culture

This article considers ancient Jewish and Christian engagement with Apollo traditions in texts and material objects from the second century BCE to the sixth century CE. I track a shared strategy in which both Jews and Christians adopt imagery or tropes that surround Apollo, but either (1) reassign t...

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Main Author: Stewart Lester, Olivia 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2020
In: Journal of early Christian history
Year: 2020, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 28-48
RelBib Classification:BE Greco-Roman religions
HD Early Judaism
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
TB Antiquity
Further subjects:B Helios
B synagogue mosaics
B Sibylline Oracles
B Apollo
B Delphic oracle
B Prophecy
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