Divine Visitations and Hospitality to Strangers in Luke-Acts PDF Download

Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Divine Visitations and Hospitality to Strangers in Luke-Acts PDF full book. Access full book title Divine Visitations and Hospitality to Strangers in Luke-Acts by Joshua W. Jipp. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.

Divine Visitations and Hospitality to Strangers in Luke-Acts

Divine Visitations and Hospitality to Strangers in Luke-Acts PDF Author: Joshua W. Jipp
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004258000
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 349

Get Book

Book Description
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.