(Ebook) Strange Acts Studies in the Cultural World of the Acts of the Apostles 1st Edition by Rick Strelan ISBN 3110182009 9783110182002

(Ebook) Strange Acts Studies in the Cultural World of the Acts of the Apostles 1st Edition by Rick Strelan ISBN 3110182009 9783110182002

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ISBN 10: 3110182009 
ISBN 13: 9783110182002
Author: Rick Strelan

This book examines many of the strange events and actions in Acts in the context of the Hellenistic world and from that perspective. These events and actions include the ascension of Jesus, direction by the Spirit, visions, angelophanies, prison escapes and resuscitations of the dead. Many of these events are either avoided in scholarship or are investigated with an agenda other than to understand them for themselves. The book constructs an ancient audience to be one that has a close familiarity with the Septuagint and with other Greek and Latin writings. The culturally-strange events are then interpreted through the lens of these texts.

(Ebook) Strange Acts Studies in the Cultural World of the Acts of the Apostles 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Tis a Strange World
1. Introduction
2. Ancient Literary Styles
3. The strange acts and scholarship
4. The strange god of the Christians
5. Some Greek and Roman attitudes towards the miraculous
6. The purpose of the strange acts
Chapter 2: Up, Up, and Away?
1. The ascension (Acts 1.9-11)
2. The ascension as vision
3. The vision of angels (Acts 1.10)
4. Ascensions in other literature
5. The ascension narrative and its worship setting
Chapter 3: Spirit Matters
1. Introduction
2. Non-Jewish understandings of spirit
3. Spirit as overwhelming power
4. Spirit as angel and person
5. Wind, fire and holy spirit (Acts 2.1-13)
6. The swaying temple (Acts 4.24-31)
7. Snatched by the Spirit (Acts 8.39)
8. Prevented by the spirit (Acts 16.6-7)
9. Spirit contradictions (Acts 20.22-23; 21.4-15)
10. Healing those with evil and unclean spirits
11. Peter and the unclean spirits (Acts 5.16)
12. Philip and the unclean spirits (Acts 8.7)
13. Paul and the evil spirits (Acts 19.12)
14. The exorcists and the evil spirits (Acts 19.13-17)
15. Paul and Python (Acts 16.16-18)
Chapter 4: On the Side of the Angels
1. Angels in the ancient literature
2. Angel-faced Stephen (Acts 6.15)
Chapter 5: Seeing Things
1. Introduction
2. Visions in the wider literature
3. The first visions (Acts 1.1-11)
4. Stephen’s vision (Acts 7.54-56)
5. Ananias’s vision (Acts 9.10-16)
6. Cornelius’s vision (Acts 10.1-8)
7. Peter’s ecstasic vision (Acts 10.9-16)
8. Paul's visions
8.1. The vision near Damascus (Acts 9.3-9; 22. 6-11; 26.12-18)
8.2. The vision in the temple (Acts 22.17-21)
8.3. The Vision at Troas (Acts 16.9-10)
8.4. The vision in Corinth (Acts 18.9-10)
8.5. Another vision in Jerusalem (Acts 23.11)
8.6. Paul's last vision (Acts 27.23)
Chapter 6: The Power of Bodies and Words
1. Introduction
2. Peter’s shadow (Acts 5.15)
3. Paul’s kerchiefs and belts (Acts 19.11)
4. The curses of Peter and Paul
4.1. The curse on Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5.1-11)
4.2. The curse on Simon (Acts 8.9-24)
4.3. The curse on Bar Jesus (Acts 13.6-12)
5. Shaving heads, shaking clothes, and making vows (Acts 18.18; 21.23-24; 18.6)
Chapter 7: Raising the Dead
1. Introduction
2. Death among the holy ones (Acts 9.36-42)
3. Paul stoned (Acts 14.19)
4. Death of a youth (Acts 20.7-12)
Chapter 8: Great Prison Escapes
1. Introduction
2. The first escape (Acts 5.19)
3. Peter’s second escape (Acts 12.1-17)
4. Paul at Midnight (Acts 16.25-34)
5. The heat on Paul in Malta (Acts 28.1-6)
Conclusion
Bibliography
1. Ancient Greek and Latin Texts
2. Reference Texts
3. Commentaries on the Acts of the Apostles
4. Secondary Literature
Index of References
1. Old Testament
2. Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha
3. New Testament
4. Dead Sea Scrolls
5. Rabbinic and Other Jewish Literature
6. Early Christian Literature
7. Ancient Greek Writers
8. Ancient Latin Writers
9. Papyri

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