Claiming Places - Reading Acts through the Lens of Ancient Colonization

How is Acts of the Apostles - its form and features - to be understood in light of the work's ancient Mediterranean cultural context? In the present study, Eric C. Moore offers a fresh response to this much-debated question, arguing for the utility of ancient colonization as an analytic lens for reading Acts, a story about the origins and replication of early Christianity. He explores how in narrating his account, Luke draws on a common stock of "foundation" motifs employed by ancient sources, textual and material alike, to glorify community beginnings.

Product details

• Authors: Eric C. Moore
• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.09.2020
• EAN: 9783161569852
• ISBN: 978-3-16-156985-2
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 16 mm x 233 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe; WUNT II