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The genre of Acts and collected biography /

"It is widely accepted by New Testament scholars that the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles probably originated as two parts of one work by a single author. In spite of this, the books have been assigned to very different genres: Luke is traditionally viewed as a biography of Jesus, a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Adams, Sean A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Colección:Monograph series (Society for New Testament Studies) ; 156.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Modern and ancient genre theory
  • Ancient individual and collected biographies
  • Acts as collected biography
  • Characterisation in Acts
  • Peter, Paul and the ending of Acts
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1. Literary topoi in ancient Greek biographies
  • Appendix 2. References to biographical works in Diogenes Laertius' The Lives of the Philosophers
  • Appendix 3. Divisions in collected biographies.