Genre and narrative coherence in the Acts of the Apostles
Focusing specifically on the issue of genre methodology in Acts, Bale presents work which will have clear ramifications for the study of biblical texts in general. The first part of the work surveys the state of genre theory in Acts scholarship and demonstrates its inadequacy for both classifying an...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
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| Published: |
London
Bloomsbury Publishing
2015
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Library of New Testament studies (514)
Year: 2015 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Bale, Alan J., Genre and narrative coherence in the Acts of the Apostles] (2017) (Backhaus, Knut, 1960 -)
[Rezension von: Bale, Alan J., Genre and narrative coherence in the Acts of the Apostles] (2015) (van der Bergh, R. H.) |
| Series/Journal: | Library of New Testament studies
514 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Acts of the Apostles
/ Narrativity
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B Paul Apostle B Paul Apostle / Acts of the Apostles |
| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Narrative theory
B Literary genre B Electronic books B Thesis B Acts of the Apostles |
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Volltext (Aggregator) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Focusing specifically on the issue of genre methodology in Acts, Bale presents work which will have clear ramifications for the study of biblical texts in general. The first part of the work surveys the state of genre theory in Acts scholarship and demonstrates its inadequacy for both classifying and interpreting Acts. Bale constructs a new genre model rooted in contemporary genre theory, tackling the problematic issue in Biblical scholarship of the relationship between history and fiction in literature. From this theoretical analysis Bale presents a new, pragmatic model for genre which is non |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 0567655938 |