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

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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Main Author: Jipp, Joshua W.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden : Brill, 2013.

Series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements 153.
Novum Testamentum Supplements Online, Supplement 2014, ISBN: 9789004277120.

Subjects:

Paul, > the Apostle, Saint > Travel > Malta.

Bible. > Acts XXVIII, 1-10 > Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Hospitality > Religious aspects.

Hospitality in the Bible.