‘Rise, Kill and Eat!’—A Missing Dionysian Link in the Acts of the Apostles?
It has long been suggested that via a sequence of running motifs, the author of Luke-Acts plays upon a perceived analogy between early Christianity and the Dionysian cult. Scholars often claim that Luke modelled the unconverted Paul on the persecuting King Pentheus in Euripides’ Bacchae, not only be...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 73, Issue: 1, Pages: 62-91 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Acts of the Apostles
/ Euripides, Bacchae
/ Peter Apostle
/ Dionysus
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RelBib Classification: | BE Greco-Roman religions HC New Testament TB Antiquity |
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