Nasrallah L. The Acts of the Apostles, Greek Cities, and Hadrian’s Panhellenion

JBL 127, no. 3 (2008): 533–566.Luke-Acts produces a “memory theater,” invoking the language of the Septuagint, monumental traditions regarding the earliest Jesus movement, and retelling again and again the epic of the people of Israel, reconfiguring its literary spaces for a new (Christian) Israel. Luke hybridizes Christianity with the Greekness that was so prestigious and marketable in the Roman Empire and seeks to make of “one race” many peoples.