Leadership and lifestyle: the portrait of Paul in the Miletus speech and 1 Thessalonians
Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 WHY STUDY THE MILETUS SPEECH? -- 1.1 The Paul of Acts/Paul of the epistles debate -- 1.1.1 Three schools of thought -- 1.1.2 Vielhauer and Haenchen -- 1.1.3 Responses to Vielhauer and Haenchen -- 1.1.4 The relevance of the Miletus speech --...
| Summary: | Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 WHY STUDY THE MILETUS SPEECH? -- 1.1 The Paul of Acts/Paul of the epistles debate -- 1.1.1 Three schools of thought -- 1.1.2 Vielhauer and Haenchen -- 1.1.3 Responses to Vielhauer and Haenchen -- 1.1.4 The relevance of the Miletus speech -- 1.2 Luke's knowledge of the Pauline epistles -- 1.2.1 The case for no knowledge -- 1.2.2 The case for knowledge -- 1.2.3 Responses to the case for knowledge -- 1.2.4 The relevance of the Miletus speech -- 1.3 Review of previous work on the speech -- 1.3.1 Pauline tradition -- 1.3.2 Lukan composition -- 1.3.3 Farewell speech as genre -- 1.3.4 Structural studies -- 1.3.5 An attempt to re-set the agenda -- 1.3.6 Narrative-critical approaches -- 1.3.7 Rhetorical-critical approaches -- 1.4 Orientation of this study -- 2 ARE PARALLELS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER? -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Parallelism in Luke-Acts -- 2.2.1 Rackham -- 2.2.2 Goulder -- 2.2.3 Talbert -- 2.2.4 Conclusion -- 2.3 What kind of unity have Luke and Acts? -- 2.4 A hierarchy of connections -- 2.5 Acts and the Pauline parallels -- 2.5.1 Why focus on one letter? -- 2.5.2 The use of criteria -- 2.6 Conclusion -- 3 THE MILETUS SPEECH IN CONTEXT -- 3.1 Immediate context -- 3.2 Literary genre -- 3.2.1 Is there a genre farewell speech'? -- 3.2.2 Is the Miletus speech a f̀arewell speech'? -- 3.3 Structure -- 3.3.1 Markers of structure -- 3.3.2 Chiastic structure? -- 3.3.3 A proposed structure -- 3.4 Overview of contents -- 3.4.1 Verses 18 ... 21: retrospect -- 3.4.2 Verses 22 ... 4: the future of Paul in Jerusalem -- 3.4.3 Verses 25 ... 27: prospect and retrospect -- 3.4.4 Verses 28 ... 31: a charge to the elders -- 3.4.5 Verses 32 ... 5: conclusion -- 3.5 Themes -- 3.5.1 Faithful fulfilment of leadership responsibility -- 3.5.2 Suffering -- 3.5.3 The attitude to wealth and work -- 3.5.4 The death of Jesus -- EXCURSUS 1: THE TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF ACTS 20.28B -- The correct reading -- Translation and meaning -- 4 THE MILETUS SPEECH AND LUKE'S GOSPEL -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.1.1 The context in Acts -- 4.1.2 Parallels in Luke's Gospel -- 4.2 Luke 22.14 ... 38 -- 4.2.1 The Last Supper discourse as a farewell speech -- 4.2.2 Suffering to come -- 4.2.3 The efficacy of the death of Jesus -- 4.2.4 Leadership -- 4.2.5 Money and work -- 4.2.6 Summary -- 4.3 Luke 12.1 ... 53 -- 4.3.1 Leadership -- 4.3.2 Suffering -- 4.3.3 Money -- 4.3.4 Other verbal parallels -- 4.3.5 Summary -- 4.4 Luke 21.5 ... 36 -- 4.5 Briefer passages -- 4.5.1 Luke 7.38, 44 -- 4.5.2 Luke 9.2 -- 4.5.3 Luke 10.3 -- 4.5.4 Luke 13.32 -- 4.6 Conclusion: leadership -- EXCURSUS 2: THE TEXT OF LUKE 22.17 ... 20 -- 5 THE MILETUS SPEECH AND 1 THESSALONIANS -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 Why 1 Thessalonians? -- 5.1.2 Our approach to parallels -- 5.2 Orientation to 1 Thessalonians -- 5.2.1 Authorship -- 5.2.2 Date -- 5.2.3 Occasion -- 5.2.4 Summary -- 5.3 From the Miletus speech to 1 Thessalonians -- 5.3.1 Leadership. This study contributes to debate about the portraits of Paul in Acts and his epistles by considering Paul's Miletus speech (Acts 20.18b-35) and identifies and compares major themes in Luke and Paul's views of Christian leadership. Comparisons with Jesus' speeches in Luke show how Lukan the speech is and, with 1 Thessalonians, how Pauline it is. The speech calls the Ephesian elders to service after Paul's departure to Jerusalem, focusing on: faithful fulfilment of leadership responsibility; suffering; attitudes to wealth and work; and the death of Jesus. Paul models Christian leadership for the elders. Parallels in Luke highlight his view of Christian leadership - modelled by Jesus and taught to his disciples, and modelled by Paul and taught to the elders. Study of 1 Thessalonians identifies a remarkably similar portrait of Christian leadership. The Miletus speech is close in thought, presentation and vocabulary to an early, indubitably Pauline letter |
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| Item Description: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Sheffield, 1997. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-239) and indexes. - Description based on print version record Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Sheffield, 1997 |
| ISBN: | 0511009739 |