Reading the Areopagus Speech in Acts 17 from the Perspective of Sacral Manumission of Slaves in Ancient Greece
This article suggests that the metaphor of Paul as seed-picker who gathers dirt from the market in Athens (Acts 17:18) is part of the broad slave metaphor found in Greco-Roman literature and in the New Testament. The stigma of depersonalization, desocialization, and religious marginalization is atta...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2017
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Biblical theology bulletin
Year: 2017, Volume: 47, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-58 |
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slavery in antiquity
B Spiritual Life B fictive kinship B Paul's kerygma B resurrection belief B social death B Luke-Acts |
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