Acts in its Ancient Literary Context
Here, gathered for the first time, is a collection of Loveday Alexander's critically acclaimed essays on the Acts of the Apostles. In this collection of essays, Alexander addresses the central question 'What kind of book is Acts?' She approaches the text of Acts with a finely-tuned sense of the complexities of the conventional codes that governed reading and writing in the classical world, and argues that the differences between New Testament texts and contemporary writings in the Graeco-Roman world can be as revealing as the similarities. The collection begins with Alexander's classic analysis of the literary codes governing the preface to L…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-567-43895-9
- EAN: 9780567438959
- Produktnummer: 17001056
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 17'675 KB
Über den Autor
Loveday Alexander is a Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield and a Canon-Theologian of Chester Cathedral. Since training as a classicist at Somerville College, Oxford, she has been exploring the interface between the classical world and the world of the New Testament.
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