Three Years? : St. Paul’s Journey to Arabia

dc.creatorBajnok, Dániel
dc.date2020-08-09
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-28T11:07:00Z
dc.date.available2021-06-28T11:07:00Z
dc.descriptionThe article intends to summarize and answer the questions concerning the journey of Paul to Arabia. Shortly after his conversion, Paul left Damascus to go to Arabia, a place that can be possibly identified with the Kingdom of Nabataea. We cannot surely establish the duration of his stay in Arabia, which may be considerably shorter than three years. Some scholars have claimed that Paul went there to preach the gospel, whereas others have assumed that he prepared in contemplation and prayer to his career as an apostle. The Nabataean kingdom and its capital, Petra, was a greatly Hellenized, “cosmopolitan place”. A passage of Strabo (XIV.5.13.) leads us to a third conceivable assumption to explain the motivation for Paul’s visit in Arabia: the Hellenic surroundings of Petra contributed to the development of his theological thinking.
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dc.identifierhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/classica/article/view/8097
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2437/317342
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Debrecen.
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/classica/article/view/8097/7382
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2020 Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis
dc.sourceActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis; Vol. 45 (2009); 115–127
dc.source2732-3390
dc.source0418-453X
dc.subjectArabia
dc.subjectconversion
dc.subjectDamascus
dc.subjectNabataea
dc.subjectSt. Paul
dc.titleThree Years? : St. Paul’s Journey to Arabia
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.typePeer-reviewed Article
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