Past scholarship on the prison-escapes in the Acts of the Apostles
has tended to focus on lexical similarities to Euripides' Bacchae,
going so far as to argue for direct literary dependence. Moving
beyond such explanations, the present study argues that miraculous
prison-escape was a central event in a traditional and culturally
significant story about the introduction and foundation of cults -
a story discernable in the Bacchae and other ancient texts. When
the mythic quality and cultural diffusion of the prison-escape
narratives are taken into account, the resemblance of Lukan and
Dionysian narrative episodes is seen to depend less on specific
literary borrowing, and more on shared familiarity with cultural
discourses involving the legitimating portrayal of new cults in the
ancient world.
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