Echoes of Plato’s Apology of Socrates in Luke-Acts
As a literate and well-educated person, the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles (“Luke”) would have been familiar with Plato’s Apology of Socrates , one of the most widely-known ancient Greek texts in the Mediterranean world in the 1st century CE . Indeed, it appears that “Luke...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2021
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Novum Testamentum
Année: 2021, Volume: 63, Numéro: 2, Pages: 177-197 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Bibel. Lukanisches Doppelwerk
/ Plato 427 avant J.-C.-347 avant J.-C., Apologia
/ Socrates 469 avant J.-C.-399 avant J.-C.
/ Éducation
/ Antiquité
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| RelBib Classification: | HC Nouveau Testament TB Antiquité VA Philosophie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Ancient Education
B Socrates B Plato B Gospel of Luke B Acts |
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| Résumé: | As a literate and well-educated person, the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles (“Luke”) would have been familiar with Plato’s Apology of Socrates , one of the most widely-known ancient Greek texts in the Mediterranean world in the 1st century CE . Indeed, it appears that “Luke” may have used his, and his readers’, familiarity with stories about the life, trial, and death of Socrates, and with the account in Plato’s Apology of Socrates specifically, as an interpretive tool in three “trial” scenes narrated in Luke-Acts: those of Jesus, Peter, and, most obviously, Paul. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5365 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Novum Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341681 |