Herod as a Composite Character in Luke-Acts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Herod as a Composite Character in Luke-Acts write by Frank Dicken. This book was released on 2014-10-09. Herod as a Composite Character in Luke-Acts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Were the three rulers with the name "Herod" in Luke-Acts a composite character? Frank Dicken explores their narrative similarities and interprets them as a single character in light of other examples of conflation in Jewish and early Christian literature."--Provided by publisher.
King and Ruler Takes His Stand
King and Ruler Takes His Stand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook King and Ruler Takes His Stand write by Frank Edward Dicken. This book was released on 2014. King and Ruler Takes His Stand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Characters and Characterization in Luke-Acts
Characters and Characterization in Luke-Acts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Characters and Characterization in Luke-Acts write by Frank Dicken. This book was released on 2016-10-20. Characters and Characterization in Luke-Acts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Like all skilful authors, the composer of the biblical books of Luke and Acts understood that a good story requires more than a gripping plot - a persuasive narrative also needs well-portrayed, plot-enhancing characters. This book brings together a set of new essays examining characters and characterization in those books from a variety of methodological perspectives. The essays illustrate how narratological, sociolinguistic, reader-response, feminist, redaction, reception historical, and comparative literature approaches can be fruitfully applied to the question of Luke's techniques of characterization. Theoretical and methodological discussions are complemented with case studies of specific Lukan characters. Together, the essays reflect the understanding that while many of the literary techniques involved in characterization attest a certain universality, each writer also brings his or her own unique perspective and talent to the portrayal and use of characters, with the result that analysis of a writer's characters and style of characterization can enhance appreciation of that writer's work.
Luke/Acts and the End of History
Luke/Acts and the End of History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Luke/Acts and the End of History write by Kylie Crabbe. This book was released on 2019-11-18. Luke/Acts and the End of History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Luke/Acts and the End of History investigates how understandings of history in diverse texts of the Graeco-Roman period illuminate Lukan eschatology. In addition to Luke/Acts, it considers ten comparison texts as detailed case studies throughout the monograph: Polybius's Histories, Diodorus Siculus's Library of History, Virgil's Aeneid, Valerius Maximus's Memorable Doings and Sayings, Tacitus’s Histories, 2 Maccabees, the Qumran War Scroll, Josephus's Jewish War, 4 Ezra, and 2 Baruch. The study makes a contribution both in its method and in the questions it asks. By placing Luke/Acts alongside a broad range of texts from Luke's wider cultural setting, it overcomes two methodological shortfalls frequently evident in recent research: limiting comparisons of key themes to texts of similar genre, and separating non-Jewish from Jewish parallels. Further, by posing fresh questions designed to reveal writers' underlying conceptions of history—such as beliefs about the shape and end of history or divine and human agency in history—this monograph challenges the enduring tendency to underestimate the centrality of eschatology for Luke's account. Influential post-war scholarship reflected powerful concerns about "salvation history" arising from its particular historical setting, and criticised Luke for focusing on history instead of eschatology due to the parousia’s delay. Though some elements of this thesis have been challenged, Luke continues to be associated with concerns about the delayed parousia, affecting contemporary interpretation. By contrast, this study suggests that viewing Luke/Acts within a broader range of texts from Luke's literary context highlights his underlying teleological conception of history. It demonstrates not only that Luke retains a sense of eschatological urgency seen in other New Testament texts, but a structuring of history more akin to the literature of late Second Temple Judaism than the non-Jewish Graeco-Roman historiographies with which Luke/Acts is more commonly compared. The results clarify not only Lukan eschatology, but related concerns or effects of his eschatology, such as Luke’s politics and approach to suffering. This monograph thereby offers an important corrective to readings of Luke/Acts based on established exegetical habits, and will help to inform interpretation for scholars and students of Luke/Acts as well as classicists and theologians interested in these key questions.
The State of New Testament Studies
The State of New Testament Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The State of New Testament Studies write by Scot McKnight. This book was released on 2019-11-05. The State of New Testament Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book surveys the current landscape of New Testament studies, offering readers a concise guide to contemporary discussions. Bringing together a diverse group of experts, it covers research on the most important issues in New Testament studies, including new discipline areas, making it an ideal supplemental textbook for a variety of courses on the New Testament. Michael Bird, David Capes, Greg Carey, Lynn Cohick, Dennis Edwards, Michael Gorman, and Abson Joseph are among the contributors.
