Abstract
Martin Dibelius long ago described the oration on the Areopagus as ‘… ahellenisticspeech about the true knowledge of God’. In this paper it will be argued that theexordiumof the Areopagus speech clearly conforms to conventions of hellenistic rhetoric in regard toexordia; secondly, that thisexordiumfunctions as an introduction to a deliberation on the topic of religion; and finally, that both theexordiumand the speech as a whole bear witness to what Frederick Danker has aptly described as the author's ‘broadly ranging rhetorical competence’.
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