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