Biography, History and the Genre of Luke-Acts

Genre looms large in contemporary Lukan scholarship. While many scholars are content to label Luke as biography and Acts as history, others argue that both volumes must belong to a single genre. This solution preserves the generic unity of Luke-Acts by shoehorning one or both volumes into ill-fittin...

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Authors: Smith, Daniel Lynwood 1982- (Author) ; Kostopoulos, Zachary L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2017]
In: New Testament studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 63, Issue: 3, Pages: 390-410
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Lucan writings / Literary genre / Biography / History
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
HC New Testament
Further subjects:B genre theory
B Biography
B Genre
B Luke-Acts
B History
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Summary:Genre looms large in contemporary Lukan scholarship. While many scholars are content to label Luke as biography and Acts as history, others argue that both volumes must belong to a single genre. This solution preserves the generic unity of Luke-Acts by shoehorning one or both volumes into ill-fitting categories; such a move only makes sense within an understanding of genre-as-classification. By exploring recent scholarship on genre and privileging ancient practice over ancient theory, we propose reading Luke-Acts as a unified narrative influenced by and modelled after a wide range of Greek prose narratives, rather than representing one genre in particular.
ISSN:1469-8145
Contains:Enthalten in: New Testament studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0028688517000091