Divine visitations and hospitality to strangers in Luke-Acts : : an interpretation of the Malta episode in Acts 28:1-10 / / by Joshua W. Jipp.

This study presents a coherent interpretation of the Malta episode by arguing that Acts 28:1-10 narrates a theoxeny, that is, an account of unknowing hospitality to a god which results in the establishment of a fictive kinship relationship between the Maltese barbarians and Paul and his God. In ligh...

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Superior document:Supplements to Novum Testamentum, Volume 153
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : Brill,, [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 153.
Physical Description:1 online resource (349 pages)
Notes:Slightly revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Emory University.
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