The Book of Acts in the setting of Hellenistic history
Cover -- Titel -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Principal Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Acts and Historicity -- The Neglect of Historicity -- Historicity and Scholarship -- Objections to an Attempt to Reopen the Question -- The Importance of Historicity -- Conclusions -- Chapter 2: Preliminary Qu...
| Summary: | Cover -- Titel -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Principal Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Acts and Historicity -- The Neglect of Historicity -- Historicity and Scholarship -- Objections to an Attempt to Reopen the Question -- The Importance of Historicity -- Conclusions -- Chapter 2: Preliminary Questions -- The Unity of Luke-Acts -- The Genre of Luke-Acts -- The Meaning of Historicity -- Approaches to the Question -- The Textual Problem -- Sources for the Context -- Chapter 3: Ancient Historiography -- The Problem of 'Parallels' -- Literature about Ancient Historiography -- Topics Illustrating the Diversity of Ancient Historiographical Practice -- Biography as an Alternative Model for the Historiography of Luke -- Luke and Josephus -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4: Types of Knowledge Displayed in Acts -- Common Knowledge -- Specialized Knowledge -- Specific Local Knowledge -- Chapter 5: The Evidence of Historical Details in Acts -- Correlations of Date with Ostensible Chronology -- Details Broadly Suggestive of Date -- Correlations between Acts and Epistles -- Latent Internal Correlations within Acts -- Details Involving Differences between Alexandrian and Western Texts -- Unstudied Allusions -- Differences of Formulation within Acts -- Peculiar Selection of Detail -- Immediacy in Details -- Idioms or Cultural Features Suggestive of Date of Composition -- Interrelated Complexes Leading to Larger Areas of Historical Reconstruction -- New Background Information: Unfinished Tasks -- Uncheckable Details -- Implications -- Excursus: Names And Titles In Acts -- Local Names and Titles Illustrative of the Text -- 'Jerusalem' and 'Luke' -- Place-Names and Ethnic Titles in Acts and the Inscriptions -- Chapter 6: Acts and Epistles -- Introduction -- 'Theological Disparity' between Paul and Luke -- The Heart of the Historical Question -- Chronology. |
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| ISBN: | 3161574427 |