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Contextualizing Acts : Lukan narrative and Greco-Roman discourse / edited by Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele.

Contributor(s): Penner, Todd C | Vander Stichele, Caroline
Material type: TextTextSeries: Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature): no. 20.Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2004Copyright date: ©2003Description: xvii, 407 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004127380 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible. Acts -- Criticism, interpretation, etcDDC classification: 226.6/06 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-378) and indexes.
Contents:
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 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 -- Metabolh politeuwn : 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 socio-rhetorical functions of a Lukan setting / Milton Moreland -- Gender and genre : Acts in/of interpretation / Caroline Vander Stichele.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-378) and indexes.

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 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 -- Metabolh politeuwn : 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 socio-rhetorical functions of a Lukan setting / Milton Moreland -- Gender and genre : Acts in/of interpretation / Caroline Vander Stichele.

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