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9781589830806

Contextualizing Acts

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    9781589830806

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    1589830806

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-11-01
  • Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Contextualizing Acts
Todd Penner
1(22)
From History to Rhetoric and Back: Assessing New Trends in Acts Studies
Joseph B. Tyson
23(20)
Luke and the Progymnasmata: A Preliminary Investigation into the Preliminary Exercises
Mikeal C. Parsons
43(22)
Civilizing Discourse: Acts, Declamation, and the Rhetoric of the Polis
Todd Penner
65(40)
The Trial Scene in the Greek Novels and in Acts
Saundra Schwartz
105(34)
METABOΛH ΠOΛITEIΩN Jesus as Founder of the Church in Luke-Acts: Form and Function
David L. Balch
139(50)
Paul's Farewell to the Ephesian Elders and Hector's Farewell to Andromache: A Strategic Imitation of Homer's Iliad
Dennis R. MacDonald
189
Cultural Divides and Dual Realities: A Greco-Roman Context for Acts 14(219)
Amy L. Wordelman
205(28)
Roman Propaganda and Christian Identity in the Worldview of Luke-Acts
Gary Gilbert
233(24)
History or Story in Acts-A Middle Way? The "We" Passages, Historical Intertexture, and Oral History
Samuel Byrshog
257(28)
The Jerusalem Community in Acts: Mythmaking and the Sociorhetorical Functions of a Lukan Setting
Milton Moreland
285(26)
Gender and Genre: Acts in/of Interpretation
Caroline Vander Stichele
311(20)
Bibliography of Primary Sources 331(4)
Bibliography of Modern Authors 335(44)
Index of Primary Sources 379(21)
Index of Modern Authors 400(7)
Contributors 407

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