Echoes of Plato’s Apology of Socrates in Luke-Acts

As a literate and well-educated person, the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles (“Luke”) would have been familiar with Plato’s Apology of Socrates , one of the most widely-known ancient Greek texts in the Mediterranean world in the 1st century CE . Indeed, it appears that “Luke...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reece, Steve 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
Drawer...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Published: Brill 2021
In: Novum Testamentum
Year: 2021, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 177-197
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Lucan writings / Plato 427 BC-347 BC, Apologia / Socrates 469 BC-399 BC / Education / Classical antiquity
IxTheo Classification:HC New Testament
TB Antiquity
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Ancient Education
B Socrates
B Plato
B Gospel of Luke
B Acts
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Description
Summary:As a literate and well-educated person, the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles (“Luke”) would have been familiar with Plato’s Apology of Socrates , one of the most widely-known ancient Greek texts in the Mediterranean world in the 1st century CE . Indeed, it appears that “Luke” may have used his, and his readers’, familiarity with stories about the life, trial, and death of Socrates, and with the account in Plato’s Apology of Socrates specifically, as an interpretive tool in three “trial” scenes narrated in Luke-Acts: those of Jesus, Peter, and, most obviously, Paul.
ISSN:1568-5365
Contains:Enthalten in: Novum Testamentum
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341681