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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461422403321

Autore

Alexander Loveday

Titolo

Acts in its ancient literary context [[electronic resource] ] : a classicist looks at the Acts of the Apostles / / Loveday C.A. Alexander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : T & T Clark International, c2005

ISBN

1-283-19960-2

9786613199607

0-567-43895-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Collana

T & T Clark biblical studies

Early Christianity in context ; ; 298

Disciplina

226.6/066

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Paperback edition 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Foreword and Acknowledgements; 1. On a Roman Bookstall: Reading Acts in its Ancient Literary Context; 2. The Preface to Acts and the Historians; 3. Acts and Ancient Intellectual Biography; 4. 'In Journeyings Often': Voyaging in the Acts of the Apostles and in Greek Romance; 5. Narrative Maps: Reflections on the Toponomy of Acts; 6. Fact, Fiction and the Genre of Acts; 7. New Testament Narrative and Ancient Epic; 8. The Acts of the Apostles as an Apologetic Text; 9. Reading Luke-Acts from Back to Front

10. Septuaginta, Fachprosa, Imitatio: Albert Wifstrand and the Language of Luke-Acts Bibliography; Index of Ancient Authors and Texts; Index of Biblical References; Index of Modern Authors

Sommario/riassunto

Here, gathered for the first time, is a collection of Loveday Alexander's critically acclaimed essays on the Acts of the Apostles. In this collection of essays, 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