Plots of Epiphany : : Prison-Escape in Acts of the Apostles / / John B. Weaver.

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• VerfasserIn: Weaver, John B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft , 131
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (335 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Table of Contents --; Chapter One. Prison-Escape and Myth-Criticism --; Chapter Two. Epiphanic Rescue from Prison in Ancient Myth and History --; Chapter Three. "Beginning from Jerusalem:" Prison-Escape and the Mythopoesis of Christian Origins in Acts 1-7 --; Chapter Four. Rescue and Regicide: The Poetics and Politics of Group Validation in Acts 12 --; Chapter Five. "A Door of Faith Opened to the Gentiles:" Prison Epiphany and Cult Foundation in Acts 16 --; Chapter Six. Conclusions --; Bibliography --; Index of Ancient Sources --; Index of Subjects --; Index of Modern Authors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110915617; 9783110238570; 9783110238549; 9783110638165
• ISSN: 0171-6441
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110915617
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John B. Weaver.

Der Autor vergleicht die drei Erzählungen der Apostelgeschichte über Gefängnisausbrüche mit anderen Befreiungswundern in griechisch-römischen und jüdischen Mythen. Eine Analyse dieser Geschichten und ihrer konventionellen Darstellung göttlicher Epiphanie und Kultbegründung ermöglicht neue Einblicke in den kulturellen Kontext und die narrative Darstellung frühchristlicher Geschichte in der Apostelgeschichte. Past scholarship on the prison-escapes in the Acts of the Apostles has tended to focus on lexical similarities to Euripides' Bacchae, going so far as to argue for direct literary dependence. Moving beyond such explanations, the present study argues that miraculous prison-escape was a central event in a traditional and culturally significant story about the introduction and foundation of cults - a story discernable in the Bacchae and other ancient texts. When the mythic quality and cultural diffusion of the prison-escape narratives are taken into account, the resemblance of Lukan and Dionysian narrative episodes is seen to depend less on specific literary borrowing, and more on shared familiarity with cultural discourses involving the legitimating portrayal of new cults in the ancient world.