Contextualizing Acts
Lukan Narrative and Greco-Roman Discourse
Published on 15. April 2004
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Leather / fine binding
414 pages
978-90-04-12738-8 (ISBN)
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This collection of essays provides an array of complementary studies on Acts that illustrate the move away from traditional modes of interpretation toward more innovative historical, cultural, and literary analyses. It focuses particularly on the intersection of early Christian literature and its Greco-Roman cultural and discursive contexts. The essays include examinations and reevaluations of the use of ancient rhetoric, the relation of Acts to ancient historiography, influence by and imitation of epics and novels, the status of classic designations such as "apologetic," the role of orality in narrative formation, and the profile and direction of contemporary Acts scholarship. The collection also explores the implications of these new approaches for understanding early Christian identity formation and their serviceability for reconstructing the social location of early Christian history and ideology.
Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
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Lukan Narrative and Greco-Roman Discourse
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Todd C. Penner, Ph.D. in New Testament and Early Christianity (2000), Emory University, is Assistant Professor of Religion at Austin College in Sherman, Texas.
Caroline Vander Stichele, STD and Ph.D. in Religious Studies (1992), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, is Universitair Docent in Religious Studies at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Caroline Vander Stichele, STD and Ph.D. in Religious Studies (1992), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, is Universitair Docent in Religious Studies at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Content
Contextualizing Acts, Todd Penner
From History to Rhetoric and Back: Assessing New Trends in Acts Studies, Joseph B. Tyson
Luke and the Progymnasmata: A Preliminary Investigation into the Preliminary Exercises, Mikeal C. Parsons
Civilizing Discourse: Acts, Declamation, and the Rhetoric of the Polis, Todd Penner
The Trial Scene in the Greek Novels and in Acts, Saundra Schwartz
???????? ?????????-Jesus as Founder of the Church in Luke-Acts: Form and Function, David L. Balch
Paul's Farewell to the Ephesian Elders and Hector's Farewell to Andromache: A Strategic Imitation of Homer's Iliad, Dennis R. MacDonald
Cultural Divides and Dual Realities: A Greco-Roman Context for Acts 14, Amy L. Wordelman
Roman Propaganda and Christian Identity in the Worldview of Luke-Acts, Gary Gilbert
History or Story in Acts-A Middle Way? The "We" Passages, Historical Intertexture, and Oral History, Samuel Byrskog
The Jerusalem Community in Acts: Mythmaking and the Sociorhetorical Functions of a Lukan Setting, Milton Moreland
Gender and Genre: Acts in/of Interpretation, Caroline Vander Stichele
Bibliography of Primary Sources
Bibliography of Modern Authors
Index of Primary Sources
Index of Modern Authors
From History to Rhetoric and Back: Assessing New Trends in Acts Studies, Joseph B. Tyson
Luke and the Progymnasmata: A Preliminary Investigation into the Preliminary Exercises, Mikeal C. Parsons
Civilizing Discourse: Acts, Declamation, and the Rhetoric of the Polis, Todd Penner
The Trial Scene in the Greek Novels and in Acts, Saundra Schwartz
???????? ?????????-Jesus as Founder of the Church in Luke-Acts: Form and Function, David L. Balch
Paul's Farewell to the Ephesian Elders and Hector's Farewell to Andromache: A Strategic Imitation of Homer's Iliad, Dennis R. MacDonald
Cultural Divides and Dual Realities: A Greco-Roman Context for Acts 14, Amy L. Wordelman
Roman Propaganda and Christian Identity in the Worldview of Luke-Acts, Gary Gilbert
History or Story in Acts-A Middle Way? The "We" Passages, Historical Intertexture, and Oral History, Samuel Byrskog
The Jerusalem Community in Acts: Mythmaking and the Sociorhetorical Functions of a Lukan Setting, Milton Moreland
Gender and Genre: Acts in/of Interpretation, Caroline Vander Stichele
Bibliography of Primary Sources
Bibliography of Modern Authors
Index of Primary Sources
Index of Modern Authors