Hearing Between the Lines The Audience as Fellow-Worker in Luke-Acts and its Literary Milieu

by Maxwell, Kathy

• ISBN13: 9780567592910
• ISBN10: 056759291X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-20
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

The Library of New Testament Studies (LNTS) is a premier book series that offers cutting-edge work for a readership of scholars, teachers in the field of New Testament studies, postgraduate students and advanced under-graduates. All the many and diverse aspects of New Testament study are represented and promoted, including innovative work from historical perspectives, studies using social-scientific and literary theory, and developing theological, cultural and contextual approaches.

Author Biography

Kathy Maxwell is Assistant Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. x
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Purpose and Significance	p. 1
History of Research	p. 3
The Study of Ancient Graeco-Roman Rhetoric	p. 3
Literary and Rhetorical Criticism in Biblical Studies	p. 6
Conclusion	p. 9
Methodology	p. 9
Reader-Response Criticism	p. 10
Literary Gap Theory	p. 16
Justification for Methodologies	p. 22
Justification for Studying Luke-Acts in Light of Hellenistic Rhetoric	p. 22
Justification for Studying Luke-Acts in Light of Modern Literary Gap Theory	p. 26
The Audience in Ancient Rhetoric	p. 27
Ancient Authors' Perception of the Audience	p. 27
Aristotle	p. 29
Cicero	p. 33
Rhetorica ad Herennium	p. 34
Quintilian	p. 36
Theon	p. 38
On the Sublime	p. 39
Ancient Perception of Audience Participation	p. 41
Desired Results of Audience Participation	p. 41
Tools Used to Encourage Audience Participation	p. 49
Conclusion	p. 77
Audience Participation in Pagan Literature	p. 79
Examples from the Rhetoricians	p. 80
Aristotle	p. 80
Cicero	p. 82
The Author of on the Sublime	p. 83
Conclusion	p. 84
Examples from Historians	p. 84
Herodotus	p. 84
Livy	p. 90
Conclusion	p. 98
Examples from Novelists	p. 98
Chariton	p. 99
Xenophon	p. 102
Conclusion	p. 105
Examples from Plutarch the Biographer	p. 105
Conclusion	p. 117
Audience Participation in Lukan Material	p. 119
Lukan Introductory Material	p. 119
The Question of Luke's Ability as a Rhetorician	p. 119
The Question of Luke's Audience	p. 124
Conclusion	p. 129
The Gospel According to Luke	p. 129
Conclusion	p. 148
The Acts of the Apostles	p. 149
Omission in Acts' Speeches	p. 158
Conclusion	p. 174
Conclusion	p. 174
Conclusion	p. 177
Bibliography	p. 181
Index	p. 203
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