Engaging Early Christian History

Reading Acts in the Second Century

Ruben R. Dupertuis, Todd Penner (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

286 Seiten

2013
Acumen Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84465-735-3 (ISBN)

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This book extends scholarly debate beyond the analysis of pure historical debates and concerns to focus on the associations between Acts and the diverse contemporaneous texts, writers, and broader cultural phenomena in the second-century world of Christians, Romans, Greeks, and Jews.

Rubén R. Dupertuis, Todd Penner

1. Reading Acts in the second century: Reflections on method, history, and desire 2. Jerusalem destroyed: The setting of Acts 3. Acts and the apostles: Issues of leadership in the second century 4. Spec(tac)ular sights: Mirroring in/of Acts 5. Acts of ascension: History, exaltation, and ideological legitimation 6. Time and space travel in Luke-Acts 7. The complexity of pairing: Reading Acts 16 with Plutarch’s Parallel Lives 8. Constructing Paul as a Christian in the Acts of the Apostles 9. Bold speech, opposition, and philosophical imagery in Acts 10. Among the apologists? Reading Acts with Justin Martyr 11. The Second Sophistic and the cultural idealization of Paul in Acts 12. Reading Luke-Acts in second-century Alexandria: From Clement to the Shadow of Apollos

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.11.2013
Verlagsort	Durham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-84465-735-3 / 1844657353
ISBN-13	978-1-84465-735-3 / 9781844657353
Zustand	Neuware