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This book provides a very sophisticated and fresh reading of Paul's famous Areopagus speech. Strait excels in displaying his easy command of a broad array of sources, including the epigraphic habit, but also gives due weight to Philo and the Wisdom of Solomon with their icon parodies and idol satires. The ancient rhetorical device of figured speech is used as an analytical tool to good effect throughout. Thus a thick web of allusions is created for Acts 17 that allows us to read this speech as subtle criticism of the dominating political ideology of the day. An important book and a must read, not only for Lukan scholars. -- Hans-Josef Klauck, University of Chicago Framing the New Testament's position regarding the political hegemony of the day has taken many forms. Strait's proposal that Acts invokes a longstanding criticism within Jewish circles against political domination, brings an important and socio-politically accountable perspective to bear on articulating the relationship between early Jesus followers and the Roman Empire and making sense of biblical texts. -- Jeremy Punt, University of Stellenbosch

This book provides a very sophisticated and fresh reading of Paul’s famous Areopagus speech. Strait excels in displaying his easy command of a broad array of sources, including the epigraphic habit, but also gives due weight to Philo and the Wisdom of Solomon with their icon parodies and idol satires. The ancient rhetorical device of figured speech is used as an analytical tool to good effect throughout. Thus a thick web of allusions is created for Acts 17 that allows us to read this speech as subtle criticism of the dominating political ideology of the day. An important book and a must read, not only for Lukan scholars. -- Hans-Josef Klauck, University of Chicago

This book provides a very sophisticated and fresh reading of Paul's famous Areopagus speech. Drew J. Strait excels in displaying his easy command of a broad array of sources, including the epigraphic habit, but also gives due weight to Philo and the Wisdom of Solomon with their icon parodies and idol satires. The ancient rhetorical device of figured speech is used as an analytical tool to good effect throughout. Thus a thick web of allusions is created for Acts 17 that allows us to read this speech as subtle criticism of the dominating political ideology of the day. An important book and a must- read for everyone, not only for Lukan scholars. -- Hans-Josef Klauck, University of Chicago Framing the New Testament's position regarding the political hegemony of the day has taken many forms. Strait's proposal that Acts invokes a longstanding criticism within Jewish circles against political domination, brings an important and socio-politically accountable perspective to bear on articulating the relationship between early Jesus followers and the Roman Empire and making sense of biblical texts. -- Jeremy Punt, University of Stellenbosch Drew Strait helps reshape the scholarship around a central question in the study of Acts by calling scholars to be more precise in their understanding of the shape of political resistance. Drawing together the political and religious dimensions of Paul's famous speech in Athens, Strait nuances how we might understand the sometimes ambivalent, always challenging negotiation of imperial power Acts narrates. No study of Acts and its political vision can now neglect this innovative study and its careful study of the cultural matrices that nurtured Luke's political imagination. -- Eric D. Barreto, Princeton Theological Seminary

This book provides a very sophisticated and fresh reading of Paul's famous Areopagus speech. Strait excels in displaying his easy command of a broad array of sources, including the epigraphic habit, but also gives due weight to Philo and the Wisdom of Solomon with their icon parodies and idol satires. The ancient rhetorical device of figured speech is used as an analytical tool to good effect throughout. Thus a thick web of allusions is created for Acts 17 that allows us to read this speech as subtle criticism of the dominating political ideology of the day. An important book and a must read, not only for Lukan scholars. -- Hans-Josef Klauck, University of Chicago

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Drew J. Strait is assistant professor of New Testament and Christian origins at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary.

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