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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786454503321

Autore

Downing F. Gerald <1935->

Titolo

Doing things with words in the first Christian century / / F. Gerald Downing

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : T&T Clark International, , 2004

©2000

ISBN

0-567-34980-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Library of New Testament studies

Soggetti

Christian life - History - Early church, ca. 30-600

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published as JSNTS 200 by Sheffield Academic Press.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 A BAS LES ARISTOS; Chapter 2 WORDS AS DEEDS AND DEEDS AS WORDS; Chapter 3 WORDS AND MEANINGS; Chapter 4 WORD-PROCESSING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD: THE SOCIAL PRODUCTION AND PERFORMANCE OF Q; Chapter 5 A GENRE FOR Q AND A SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXT FOR Q: COMPARING SETS OF SIMILARITIES WITH SETS OF DIFFERENCES; Chapter 6 MARKAN INTERCALATION IN CULTURAL CONTEXT; Chapter 7 A RIVAL TO ROMULUS; Chapter 8 COMPOSITIONAL CONVENTIONS AND THE SYNOPTIC PROBLEM; Chapter 9 A PARADIGM PERPLEX: LUKE, MATTHEW AND MARK

Chapter 10 THEOPHILUS''S FIRST HEARING OF LUKE-ACTSChapter 11 SHIFTING SANDS; Concluding Unscientific Postscript; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Modern Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Index of Ancient Authors; A; B; C; D; E; G; H; J; L; M; O; P; Q; S; T; V; X; Z; Index of Contents; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J ; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X

Sommario/riassunto

Although its religious heritage was that of a variegated Judaism, the tiny early Christian movement was nevertheless much more complexly and richly linked with the Graeco-Roman world in which it came to birth than is usually allowed for. In particular, ''ordinary'' people were capable of a sophisticated use of words that can be detected also in the New Testament writings. But the use of words in Graeco-Roman times was often very different from what we suppose, and this collection of



studies attempts to identify some of the anachronisms that still pervade even the best of modern scholarship.