Acts 2 as an Intertextual Map Moving from Dionysian to Platonic Identity
There is no doubt that the author of Acts not only collected and redacted sources for his work, but also rewrote the Hebrew Bible-LXX and imitated the famous Greco-Roman classics in his writing. While historical critical scholarship has stressed the former feature of Acts, literary critics have focu...
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| Published in | Classical Greek Models of the Gospels and Acts p. 113 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Claremont Press
03.01.2018
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | There is no doubt that the author of Acts not only collected and redacted sources for his work, but also rewrote the Hebrew Bible-LXX and imitated the famous Greco-Roman classics in his writing. While historical critical scholarship has stressed the former feature of Acts, literary critics have focused on the latter, the literary aspect of Acts. They have attempted to identify the author’s models to which his work alluded and to investigate his compositional competency by comparing classical literature and employing various literarycritical methods. Accordingly, scholarly debates on the genre of Acts have become more invigorated than ever, though a |
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| ISBN: | 9781946230188 1946230189 |