Acts in its ancient literary context : a classicist looks at the Acts of the Apostles

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Acts in its ancient literary context : a classicist looks at the Acts of the Apostles

Loveday C.A. Alexander

（Library of New Testament studies / editor, Mark Goodacre, 289 . Early Christianity in context）

T&T Clark International, c2005

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-271) and indexes

Series no. on series t.p. (misprint): 298

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内容説明

Here, gathered for the first time, is a collection of Loveday Alexander's critically acclaimed essays on the Acts of the Apostles. In these Alexander addresses the central question: 'What kind of book is Acts?' She approaches the text of Acts with a finely-tuned sense of the complexities of the conventional codes that governed reading and writing in the classical world, and argues that the differences between New Testament texts and contemporary writings in the Graeco-Roman world can be as revealing as the similarities. The collection begins with Alexander's classic analysis of the literary codes governing the preface to Luke's two-volume work, in which she challenges the dominant consensus that the language and structure of the preface evoke the generic conventions of Greek historiography. That insight opens up the possibility of reading Acts alongside other ancient literary genres: the lives of the Greek philosophers, the Greek novels of Chariton and Xenophon of Ephesus, Roman itineraries, Greek and Jewish apologetic, and Latin epic. The process, like the narrative of Acts itself, becomes a rich and evocative voyage of exploration, shedding light both on the varied social worlds of the author and his first readers, and on the complex communication problems underlying the creation of early Christian discourse.

目次

  • 1. Introduction: How did we get where we are? Beginnings
  • 2. Luke's Preface in the Pattern of Greek Preface-Writing
  • 3. Which Greco-Roman Prologues Most Closely Parallel the Lukan Prologues? 4. The Preface to Acts and the Historians
  • Biography
  • 5. Acts and Ancient Intellectual Biography
  • 6. Anecdote and Chreia in the Biographical Tradition (or: 57 Useful Things to do with an Apophthegm)
  • Romance
  • 7. "In journeyings often": Voyaging in the Acts of the Apostles and in Greek Romance
  • 8. Narrative Maps: Reflections on the Toponymy of Acts
  • 9. Fact, Fiction, and the Genre of Acts
  • 10. Review article on Douglas R. Edwards, Religion and Power
  • Travel
  • 11. The Pauline Itinerary and the Archive Of Theophanes
  • Apologetic
  • 12. The Acts of the Apostles as an Apologetic Text
  • Epic
  • 13. New Testament Narrative and Ancient Epic
  • Endings
  • 14. Reading Luke-Acts from Back to Front
  • Language
  • 15. Septuaginta, Fachprosa, Imitatio: Albert Wifstrand and the Language of Luke-Acts
  • Concluding Postscript: Where next?

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