Contextualizing Acts : Lukan narrative and Greco-Roman discourse / [print]
edited by Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele.
- Atlanta, Georgia : Society of Biblical Literature, (c)2003.
- xvii, 407 pages ; 23 cm.
- Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 20 .
Contextualizing Acts : introductory considerations From history to rhetoric and back : assessing new trends in Acts studies Luke and the progymnasmata : a preliminary investigation into the preliminary exercises Civilizing discourse : Acts, declamation, and the rhetoric of the polis The trial scene in the Greek novels and in Acts Metabolh politeuwn : Jesus as founder of the church in Luke-Acts : form and function Paul's farewell to the Ephesian elders and Hector's farewell to Andromache : a strategic imitation of Homer's Iliad Cultural divides and dual realities : a Greco-Roman context for Acts 14 Roman propaganda and Christian identity in the worldview of Luke-Acts History or story in Acts, a middle way? the we passages, historical intertexture and oral history The Jerusalem community in Acts : mythmaking and the socio-rhetorical functions of a Lukan setting Gender and genre : Acts in/of interpretation Todd Penner -- Joseph B. Tyson -- Mikeal Parsons -- Todd Penner -- Saundra Schwartz -- David L. Balch -- Dennis R. MacDonald -- Amy L. Wordelman -- Gary Gilbert -- Samuel Byrskog -- Milton Moreland -- Carolina Vander Stichele.