Acts in its ancient literary context : a classicist looks at the Acts of the Apostles / [print]
Loveday C.A. Alexander.
- New York : T and T Clark International, (c)2005.
- xi, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Library of New Testament studies ; Early Christianity in context 298 [i.e. 289.. .
- Library of New Testament studies ; 289. Library of New Testament studies. Early Christianity in context. .
On a Roman bookstall : reading Acts in its ancient literary context -- The preface to Acts and the historians -- Acts and ancient intellectual biography -- "In journeyings often" : voyaging in the Acts of the Apostles and in Greek romance -- Narrative maps : reflections on the toponomy of Acts -- Fact, fiction and the genre of Acts -- New Testament narrative and ancient epic -- The Acts of the Apostles as an apologetic text -- Reading Luke-Acts from back to front -- Septuaginta, Fachprosa, imitatio : Albert Wifstrand and the language of Luke-Acts.