Claiming Places

Reading Acts through the Lens of Ancient Colonization

by Eric C. Moore

Book cover: Claiming Places

Extent: 283 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Biblical Studies

Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2.Reihe

Series volume number: 525

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(September 2020)

ISBN: 9783161569852

9.09 x 6.06 inches

Price: $118.00

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How is Acts of the Apostles – its form and features – to be understood in light of the work’s ancient Mediterranean cultural context? In the present study, Eric C. Moore offers a fresh response to this much-debated question, arguing for the utility of ancient colonization as an analytic lens for reading Acts, a story about the origins and replication of early Christianity. He explores how in narrating his account, Luke draws on a common stock of “foundation” motifs employed by ancient sources, textual and material alike, to glorify community beginnings.

  • By (author) Eric C Moore