medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Robert Kraft wrote:
>
>> Same in the famous speech of Paul on the Areospagus, Acts 17,23
>> where he changes to "theooi agnostooi"
>> what was plural on the inscripition of the altar: "diis ignotis (et
>> peregrinis)" (details in Norden, Agnostos theos).
>
> Didymus of Alexandria and Jerome already make this claim (that Paul
> changed the plural to singular), so even if it is not true (and there are
> arguments both ways), there was already suspicion in antiquity that such
> things happened.
Could I just make the mild observation that we can't hold Paul responsible
for the wording of Acts?
John Briggs
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