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Through a close and informative reading of seven key texts in Acts, Kauppi analyses the appearances of Graeco-Roman religion, offering evidence of practices including divination and oracles, ruler cult and civic foundation myth. Foreign But Familiar Gods then uses a combination of these scriptural texts and other contemporary evidence (including archaeological and literary material) to suggest that one of Luke's subsidiary themes is to contrast Graeco-Roman and Christian religious conceptualizations and practices.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: Foreign but Familiar Gods
• Subtitle: Greco-Romans Read Religion in Acts
• Author: Lynn Allan Kauppi
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780567080974
• ISBN: 0567080978
• ID: 04622478
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 416 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 164 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. August 2006

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