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Kyrychenko Alexander <1969-> |
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The Roman army and the expansion of the gospel : the role of the centurion in Luke-Acts / / Alexander Kyrychenko |
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Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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3-11-037475-7 |
3-11-034726-1 |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft, , 0171-6441 ; ; volume 203 |
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Gentiles in the New Testament |
RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament |
Rome Army Officers |
Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Luke-Acts in the Roman Military Setting -- 3. The Image of the Roman Soldier in Greco-Roman Sources -- 4. The Image of the Roman Soldier in Jewish Sources -- 5. The Roman Military in Luke-Acts -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Primary Sources |
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Although Roman centurions appear at crucial stages in the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, the significance of the centurion's office for the development of Luke's story has not been adequately researched. To fill in that void, this study engages the relevant Greco-Roman and Jewish sources that reflect on the image of the Roman military and applies the findings to the analysis of the role of the Roman centurion in the narrative of Luke-Acts. It argues that contemporary evidence reveals a common perception of the Roman centurion as a principal representative of the Roman imperial power, and that Luke-Acts employs centurions in the role of prototypical Gentile believers in anticipation of the Christian mission to the Empire. |
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Chapter 1 outlines the current state of the question. Chapter 2 surveys the background data, including the place of the centurion in the Roman military organization, the role of the Roman army as the basis of the ruling power, the army's function in the life of the civilian community, Luke's military terminology, and the Roman military regiments in Luke-Acts. Chapter 3 reviews Greco-Roman writings, including Polybius, Julius Caesar, Sallust, Livy, Velleius Paterculus, Tacitus, Appian, Cornelius Nepos, Plutarch, Suetonius, Plautus, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Petronius, Quintilian, Epictetus, Juvenal, Fronto, Apuleius, as well as non-literary evidence. Chapter 4 engages the Jewish witnesses, including 1 Maccabees, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish pseudepigrapha, Philo, Josephus, Talmudic sources, and non-literary sources. Chapter 5 examines the relevant accounts of Luke-Acts, focusing on Luke 7:1-10 and Acts 10:1-11:18. The Conclusion reviews the findings of the study and summarizes the results. |
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UNINA9910786516503321 |
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Stokes Claudia <1970-> |
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The altar at home : sentimental literature and nineteenth-century American religion / / Claudia Stokes |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (290 p.) |
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Religion and literature - United States - History - 19th century |
Sentimentalism in literature |
Christianity in literature |
American literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Revivals of |
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Sentiment: Sentimentalism and the Second Great Awakening -- Chapter 2. My Kingdom: Sentimentalism and the Refinement of Hymnody -- Chapter 3. The Christian Plot: Stowe, Millennialism, and Narrative Form -- Chapter 4. Derelict Daughters and Polygamous Wives: Mormonism and the Uses of Sentiment -- Chapter 5. The Mother Church: Mary Baker Eddy and the Practice of Sentimentalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Displays of devout religious faith are very much in evidence in nineteenth-century sentimental novels such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and Little Women, but the precise theological nature of this piety has been little examined. In the first dedicated study of the religious contents of sentimental literature, Claudia Stokes counters the long-standing characterization of sentimental piety as blandly nondescript and demonstrates that these works were in fact groundbreaking, assertive, and highly specific in their theological recommendations and endorsements. The Altar at Home explores the many religious contexts and contents of sentimental literature of the American nineteenth century, from the growth of Methodism in the Second Great Awakening and popular millennialism to the developing theologies of Mormonism and Christian Science. Through analysis of numerous contemporary religious debates, Stokes demonstrates how sentimental writers, rather than offering simple depictions of domesticity, instead manipulated these scenes to advocate for divergent new beliefs and bolster their own religious authority. On the one hand, the comforting rhetoric of domesticity provided a subtle cover for sentimental writers to advance controversial new beliefs, practices, and causes such as Methodism, revivalism, feminist theology, and even the legitimacy of female clergy. On the other hand, sentimentality enabled women writers to bolster and affirm their own suitability for positions of public religious leadership, thereby violating the same domestic enclosure lauded by the texts. The Altar at Home offers a fascinating new historical perspective on the dynamic role sentimental literature played in the development of innumerable new religious movements and practices, many of which remain popular today. |
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