Acts in its ancient literary context [[electronic resource] ] : a classicist looks at the Acts of the Apostles / / Loveday C.A. Alexander
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Alexander Loveday
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| Titolo: |
Acts in its ancient literary context [[electronic resource] ] : a classicist looks at the Acts of the Apostles / / Loveday C.A. Alexander
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : T & T Clark International, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 226.6/066 |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Acts in its ancient literary context |
| ISBN: | 1-283-19960-2 |
| 9786613199607 | |
| 0-567-43895-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910789514303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Library of New Testament studies. . -Early Christianity in context ; ; 298.
T & T Clark biblical studies.