Who Is a Seer?

Flower, Michael A.

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“…72.12; cf. Flower 2008: 211). Although the maidservant is not a Pythian priestess, the parallel suggests a close relationship between the two.…”

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‘The Spirit of Jesus’ in Acts 16.7: An Ethnographic Reading

Christopher¹

2023

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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‘The spirit of Jesus’ (τὸ πνεῦμα Ἰησοῦ) is an uncommon phrase found only in Acts 16.7. Most scholars presume it to be a variant description of the Holy Spirit without any special significance. Garnering insight from ethnographic studies on spirit possession, this article seeks to overturn this presumption. In particular, the notion of the traveling spirit suggests that τὸ πνεῦμα Ἰησοῦ deliberately emphasizes the expansion of the ‘presentness’ of Jesus to a new geographical area, namely Macedonia. The significance of the coming into the presence of Jesus in Macedonia is also shown by the account of the divine direction of Paul and his companions to pass by other areas on their way to Macedonia, as well as an allusion to Alexander the Great, the conversion of Lydia, and the clash with another specific spirit that wishes to announce its presence—the python spirit.

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“…72.12; cf. Flower 2008: 211). Although the maidservant is not a Pythian priestess, the parallel suggests a close relationship between the two.…”

Section: When Two Spirits Clash: the Spirit Of Jesus And The Python S...mentioning

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‘The Spirit of Jesus’ in Acts 16.7: An Ethnographic Reading

Christopher¹

2023

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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“…For work on divination prior to 2005, see Johnston and Struck (2005, 1–10) and Lloyd (1989, 38–49); subsequently, e.g. Flower (2008), Johnston (2008), Flad (2008), Raphals (2013), Holbraad (2012), Zeitlyn (2012), Rochberg (2016) and Struck (2016); several entries in Selin (2016) and Loewe and Blacker (1981). See also Andrew (2018, esp.…”

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“…I.vi.11) divide divination into two kinds: the artificial or technical sort, which relies on human intervention and skill, and the natural, dependent wholly on unintentional, consciously unmotivated phenomena. For challenges to this division, see Rochberg (2016, 24), Zeitlyn (2012, 327), Flower (2008, 84–91), Struck (2016, 16–19), Raphals (2013, 1–2), Johnston (2008, 9) and Peek (1991, 1–22).…”

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“…55 On divinatory randomization, see Zuesse (1987) and Aubert (1959). In Greco-Roman divination, Flower (2008, 90, 221) (but cf. Raphals 2013, Chapter 5); Johnston and Struck (2005), Introduction (15–16) and chapters by Burkert (37f), Graf (60–2), Grottanelli (134–5), Frankfurter (235) and Johnston (299), Johnston (2003 and 2001: 109–13), Maurizio (1995, 81–6) and Lloyd (1989, 38 n. 120).…”

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