Implied Audiences in the Areopagus Narrative
Much of the commentary tradition on Acts 17:16-34 too quickly glosses over the inclusion of Paul’s sermon in a larger narrative context, focusing instead on the religionsgeschichtliche background of the speech or its compatibility with Pauline thought as expressed in the epistles. This essay bracket...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2004
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Tyndale bulletin
Year: 2004, Volume: 55, Issue: 2, Pages: 205-218 |
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areopagus
B compositional strategy B Gentile B paul B implied reader B Acts B New Testament |
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| Summary: | Much of the commentary tradition on Acts 17:16-34 too quickly glosses over the inclusion of Paul’s sermon in a larger narrative context, focusing instead on the religionsgeschichtliche background of the speech or its compatibility with Pauline thought as expressed in the epistles. This essay brackets many of the questions that have occupied the history of the interpretation so as to highlight questions of literary and theological function. Close attention to Luke’s compositional technique reveals the ways in which the Areopagus narrative is not aimed at a monolithic Gentile audience but rather engages multiple implied readers while recapitulating many of the leading Lukan motifs in the mission to the Jews. The portrayal of Paul and of the responses of the Athenians to his message is suggestive of how Luke answers for his readers the question posed by Tertullian a century later, ‘What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem?’ |
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| ISSN: | 0082-7118 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Tyndale bulletin
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.53751/001c.29173 |
