A Conclusion Unhindered

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A Study of the Ending of Acts within its Literary Environment

Troy M. Troftgruben(Autor*in)

Mohr Siebeck (Verlag)

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Erschienen im Juni 2010

XIII, 232 Seiten

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Cover
Preface
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction The Enigma
Overview of the Present Study
Chapter 1. Accounting for an Ending
A. The Ending of Acts among Scholars: A Brief Survey
1. The Ending of Acts: Luke Knew no More
2. The Ending of Acts: Luke was Prevented from Finishing
3. The Ending of Acts: Deliberately Abrupt
4. The Ending of Acts: An Intentional and Fitting Conclusion
B. Recent Studies on the Ending of Acts
1. Narrative Closure and the Ending of Acts
2. The Ending of Acts in view of Contemporaneous Ancient Literature
Conclusion
Chapter 2. Narrative Closure: Questions of Method
A. On Narrative and Readers
1. An Approach to Narrative Criticism
2. Who is "the Reader"?
B. Narrative Closure
1. Closure
2. Openness
Conclusion
Chapter 3. Endings in Ancient Literature
A. Ancient Prose Fiction
1. Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe
B. Ancient Biography (Lives)
1. Plutarch's Lives: Overview
2. Plutarch's Life of Cato Minor
C. Ancient Epic
1. Homer's Iliad
2. Homer's Odyssey
3. Virgil's Aeneid
D. Ancient Historiography
1. Herodotus's Histories
2. Thucydides's History of the Peloponne sian War
3. Sallust's War with Jugurtha
4. 1-4 Kingdoms
5. Josephus's Jewish Antiquities
Conclusion
Chapter 4. The Ending of Acts
A. What is "The Ending" of Acts?
B. The Ending of Acts (28:16-31)
1. The Literary Context of the Ending (27:1-28:15)
2. Paul's First Encounter with Jews in Rome (Acts 28:16-22)
3. Paul's Second Encounter with Jews in Rome (Acts 28:23-28)
a) Paul's Witness and the Response It Receives (Acts 28:23-25a)
b) Paul's Closing Word (Acts 28:25b-28)
4. The Closing Scene: Unhindered Witness (Acts 28:30-31)
Conclusion
Chapter 5. Closure and Openness in the Ending of Acts
A. Closure in the Ending of Acts: Narrative Completion
B. Openness in the Ending of Acts
1. Does The Ending Fulfill the Plan of the Narrative?
2. Does the Ending Imply Later Events that Generate Closure?
3. The Ending of Acts as a Link to an Extensive Saga (Linkage)
Conclusion to the Study
A. Synthesis: Acts as a Story of Beginnings
B. Concluding Implications
1. Implications for the Study of Closure in Ancient Literature
2. Implications for the Interpretation of the Ending of Acts
Bibliography
Index of Ancient Sources
A. Hebrew Scriptures and Septuagint
B. New Testament
C. Jewish Works and Writings of the Ancient Near East
D. Patristic Sources
E. Other Greek and Latin Literary Sources
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects

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