caa a22 4500 386362033 CHVBK 20180307111919.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198901 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0028688500024528 doi S0028688500024528 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0028688500024528 Zweck Dean Lae, Papua New Guinea The Exordium of the Areopagus Speech, Acts 17.22, 23 [Elektronische Daten] [Dean Zweck] Martin Dibelius long ago described the oration on the Areopagus as ‘ a hellenistic speech about the true knowledge of God'. In this paper it will be argued that the exordium of the Areopagus speech clearly conforms to conventions of hellenistic rhetoric in regard to exordia; secondly, that this exordium functions as an introduction to a deliberation on the topic of religion; and finally, that both the exordium and the speech as a whole bear witness to what Frederick Danker has aptly described as the author's ‘broadly ranging rhetorical competence'. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 New Testament Studies Cambridge University Press 35/1(1989-01), 94-103 0028-6885 35:1<94 1989 35 NTS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0028688500024528 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0028688500024528 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Zweck Dean Lae, Papua New Guinea NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Testament Studies Cambridge University Press 35/1(1989-01), 94-103 0028-6885 35:1<94 1989 35 NTS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge