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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784711903321

Autore

Thomas Christine M

Titolo

The Acts of Peter, Gospel literature, and the ancient novel [[electronic resource] ] : rewriting the past / / Christine M. Thomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-19-773810-9

1-280-53023-5

0-19-534414-6

1-4237-8465-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

229/.925

Soggetti

Classical fiction - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-169) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Note on the Text and Symbols; 1. The Apocryphal Acts in a Literary World; 2. Time and Revision: Literary Processes at Work in the Acts of Peter; 3. Fixity and Fluidity in the Narrative Trajectory of the Acts of Peter; 4. Narrative Fluidity as a Generic Characteristic; 5. The Acts of Peter among the Novels and Histories; Appendix One: Overview of the Ancient Editions of the Acts of Peter; Appendix Two: Intertextual Relationships between the Actus Vercellenses and Other Early Christian Literature

Appendix Three: Comparison of the Actus Vercellenses, the Greek Martyrdom Account, and the Linus TextNotes; Bibliography; Index of Ancient Texts; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Acts of Peter provides a window into the processes that shaped early Christian narrative. This book looks at the sources and subsequent versions of the Acts and argues that 'transmissional fluidity' - the existence of the work in several versions or multiforms - is a characteristic the Acts share with many related works.