The Chosen Paul's speeches in the Acts of the Apostles and the Acts of Paul

Abstract

The apostle Paul is, in both the Acts of the Apostles and in the apocryphal Acts of Paul, brought closer to the reader through his speeches. The aim of paper is to compare chosen speeches of the apostle in canonical and apocryphal texts, to compare found differences and to subsequently present a characteristic of "the apocryphal Paul" and "the canonical Paul" in this "praxeis" literature.

The object of interest will primarily be the texts of Acts 17.16-34, 20.18-35, APl 10-35 (PH 8, Pheid 79; PH 1-5).

Keywords

• speech
• sermon
• missionary speech
• apologetic (defensive) speech
• deliberative speech
• prosopopoeiia
• the Acts of the Apostles
• the Acts of Paul
• rhetoric
• literary genre