Divine visitations and hospitality to strangers in Luke-Acts [electronic resource] : an interpretation of the Malta episode in Acts 28:1-10 / by Joshua W. Jipp.
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TextSeries: Supplements to Novum Testamentum: v. 153.Publisher: Leiden : Brill, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 335 p.)ISBN: 9004255826 (hardback : alk. paper); 9789004255821 (hardback : alk. paper); 9789004258006 (electronic book)Subject(s): Paul, the Apostle, Saint -- Travel -- Malta | Bible. Acts XXVIII, 1-10 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Gods, Greek, in literature | Hospitality in literature | Hospitality in the Bible | Hospitality -- Religious aspects | Strangers in the BibleDDC classification: 226.6/06 LOC classification: BS2625.6.H66 | J57 2013Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Call number | URL | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Slightly revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Emory University.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-308) and indexes.
The episode at Malta (Acts 28:1-10) : a Lukan text 'full of the viewpoint of antiquity' -- Placing the episode at Malta: a preliminary examination of Acts 28:1-10 within its literary context -- Establishing the cultural script of hospitality to strangers in the Graeco-Roman world -- The cultural script of hospitality to strangers in the Hebrew Bible and post-biblical Jewish literature -- The grammar, symbols, and practices of hospitality to strangers in the Lukan writings -- Divine visitations and hospitality to strangers in Luke-Acts -- Divine visitations and hospitality to strangers in the Malta episode: an interpretation of Acts 28:1-10 and its literary function in Luke-Acts.
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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.