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    The Divine in Acts and in Ancient Historiography
    The Divine in Acts and in Ancient Historiography
    The Divine in Acts and in Ancient Historiography
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    The Divine in Acts and in Ancient Historiography

    By Scott Shauf

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    Scott Shauf compares the portrayal of the divine in Acts with portrayals of the divine in other ancient historiographical writings, the latter including Jewish and wider Greco-Roman historiographical traditions. The divine may be represented as a single deity (in Judaism) or many (in Greek and Roman traditions) and also includes representations of angels, God’s spirit, Jesus as a divine figure, or forces with divine status such as fate, chance, and providence. Shauf’s particular interest is in how the divine is represented as involved in history, through themes including the nature of divine retribution, the partiality or impartiality of the divine toward different sets of people, and the portrayal of divine control over seemingly purely natural and human events. Acts is shown to be engaging historiographical traditions of the author’s own day but also contributing unique historiographical perspectives. The way history is written in Acts and in the other writings is shown to be intimately tied to the understanding of the role of the divine in history.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFortress Press
    Release dateMar 1, 2015
    ISBN9781451494334
    The Divine in Acts and in Ancient Historiography
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    Scott Shauf

    Scott Shauf is associate professor of religious studies at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, and the author of scholarly articles on Acts and of Theology as History, History as Theology (2005), on theology in Luke–Acts.

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