Better Call Paul "Saul": Literary Models and a Lukan Innovation

This article argues that Luke's characterization of Saul as a god-fighter can be read as modeled on the biblical King Saul and on Pentheus from Euripides's Bacchae, and that the characterization of Paul in Acts 13:4-17:15 can be read as modeled on the Bacchae's Dionysus. My approach,...

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Published in:Journal of Biblical literature
Main Author: Kochenash, Michael 1985- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Scholar's Press [2019]
In: Journal of Biblical literature
Further subjects:B BACCHAE (Play : Euripides)
B Dionysus (Greek deity)
B PENTHEUS (Greek mythology)
B LITERARY interpretation
B HELLENISTIC antiquities
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