The Book of Acts in Its Ancient Literary Setting

by Winter, Bruce W.; Clarke, Andrew D.

• ISBN13: 9780802824332
• ISBN10: 0802824331
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-03-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

"The Book of Acts in Its Ancient Literary Setting" includes fourteen chapters devoted to the literary framework that undergirds the Book of Acts. Topics include the text as historical monograph, ancient rhetoric and speeches, the Pauline corpus, biblical history, subsequent ecclesiastical histories, and modern literary method. All of these chapters arise out of a consultation by the project's scholars at Cambridge in March 1993.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acts And The Ancient Historical Monograph	p. 1
Acts And Ancient Intellectual Biography	p. 31
Acts And Biblical History	p. 65
The Motif Of Fulfilment And The Purpose of Luke-Acts	p. 83
The Acts Of Paul As A Sequel To Acts	p. 105
Acts And Subsequent Ecclesiastical Histories	p. 153
Acts And The 'Former Treatise'	p. 163
Acts And The Pauline Corpus I: Ancient Literary Parallels	p. 183
Acts And The Pauline Corpus II. The Evidence Of Parallels	p. 215
Public Speaking And Published Accounts	p. 259
Official Proceedings And The Forensic Speeches In Acts 24-26	p. 305
Acts Against The Background Of Classical Rhetoric	p. 337
Acts And Modern Literary Approaches	p. 381
Acts And The Problem Of Its Texts	p. 415
Indexes
Biblical References	p. 445
Ancient Authors	p. 457
Modern Authors	p. 466
Subjects	p. 474
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