Sean A. Adams

The Genre of Acts and Collected Biography

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Uses genre theory to explore the composition and purpose of Acts, concluding that it is a work of collected biography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781108733960
• ISBN-10: 1108733964
• Artikelnr.: 53020463

Autorenporträt

Sean A. Adams is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He is co-editor of Issues in Luke-Acts (with Michael Pahl, 2012) and Paul and the Ancient Letter Form (with Stanley E. Porter, 2010), and is also the author of Baruch and Epistle of Jeremiah (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Modern and ancient genre theory
3. Ancient individual and collected biographies
4. Acts as collected biography
5. Characterisation in Acts
6. Peter, Paul and the ending of Acts
7. Conclusion
Appendix 1. Literary topoi in ancient Greek biographies
Appendix 2. References to biographical works in Diogenes Laertius' Lives of the Philosophers
Appendix 3. Divisions in collected biographies.