Claiming places: reading acts through the lens of ancient colonization

Cover -- Title -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Colonization as a Framework for Reading Acts -- Chapter 1: Locating This Book's Approach to (Luke-) Acts -- 1.1 Two Common Approaches -- 1.1.1 Studies of (Luke-) Acts' Genre -- 1.1.2 Studies of (Luke-)...

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Main Author: Moore, Eric C. 1976- (Author)
Corporate Author: Emory University (Degree granting institution)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck 2020
In: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament (525)
Year: 2020
Reviews:[Rezension von: Moore, Eric C., 1976-, Claiming places : Reading Acts through the Lens of Ancient Colonization] (2022) (Jipp, Joshua W.)
Edition:1st ed.
Series/Journal:Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 525
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Acts of the Apostles / Classical antiquity / Mediterranean area / Colonization
B Acts of the Apostles / Classical antiquity / Colonization
B Acts of the Apostles / Greece (Antiquity) / Roman Empire / Colonialism / Social network / Primitive Christianity / Biblical geography
IxTheo Classification:HC New Testament
Further subjects:B Electronic books
B Thesis
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Summary:Cover -- Title -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Colonization as a Framework for Reading Acts -- Chapter 1: Locating This Book's Approach to (Luke-) Acts -- 1.1 Two Common Approaches -- 1.1.1 Studies of (Luke-) Acts' Genre -- 1.1.2 Studies of (Luke-) Acts' Geography -- 1.2 An Alternative Approach: (Luke-) Acts and Cult/Community Foundations -- 1.2.1 Studies of Colonization and Related Accounts -- 1.2.2 Studies of Paul -- 1.2.3 Studies of Luke-Acts -- 1.3 This Book's Approach: Reading Acts via a Colonizing Framework -- Chapter 2: Colonization - An Analytic Framework -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Colonization in the Ancient Mediterranean World -- 2.2.1 A Variegated Phenomenon -- 2.2.2 Colonization Motifs -- 2.2.2.1 Origins -- 2.2.2.2 Divine Sanction -- 2.2.2.3 Founder(s) -- 2.3 Colonization Accounts: Case Studies -- 2.3.1 Colonization in the Archaic Period -- 2.3.1.1 The Foundation of Gela -- 2.3.1.2 The Foundation of Rhegion -- 2.3.1.3 The Foundation of Croton -- 2.3.1.4 The Foundation of Syracuse -- 2.3.1.5 The Foundation of Cyrene -- 2.3.2 Colonization in the Classical Period -- 2.3.2.1 Metropolis and Colony -- 2.3.2.2 Religious Sanction -- 2.3.3 Colonization in the Hellenistic Period -- 2.3.3.1 Alexander the Founder according to Arrian, Plutarch, and Ps.-Callisthenes -- 2.3.3.2 The Foundations of Seleucus Nicator according to John Malalas -- 2.3.4 Colonization of Rome -- 2.3.4.1 Introduction -- 2.3.4.2 The Foundation of Rome according to Livy, Plutarch, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus -- 2.4 Conclusions -- Chapter 3: The Origins of the Cult Community in Jerusalem (Acts 1-5) -- 3.1 The Community's Founder(s), Origins, and Divine Mandate (Acts 1-2) -- 3.1.1 Founding Figure(s) -- 3.1.2 Jerusalem Origins -- 3.1.3 Divine Sanction -- 3.1.3.1 Oracle of Colonization -- 3.1.3.2 Precipitation of Colonization.
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ISBN:3161569865