The Genre of Acts and Collected Biography
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The Genre of Acts and Collected Biography

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The Genre of Acts and Collected Biography

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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, and Acts as a history of the early church. Comparing in detail the structure and content of Acts with the formal features of history, novel, epic and biography, Sean A. Adams challenges this division. Applying both ancient and modern genre theory, he argues that the best genre parallel for the Acts of the Apostles is in fact collected biography. Offering a nuanced and sophisticated understanding of genre theory, along with an insightful argument regarding the composition and purpose of Acts, this book will be of interest to those studying the New Testament, Acts, genre theory and ancient literature.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781107440654
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Studies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Abbreviations
  5. 1 Introduction
  6. 2 Modern and ancient genre theory
  7. 3 Ancient individual and collected biographies
  8. 4 Acts as collected biography
  9. 5 Characterisation in Acts
  10. 6 Peter, Paul and the ending of Acts
  11. 7 Conclusion
  12. Appendix 1 Literary topoi in ancient Greek biographies
  13. Appendix 2 References to biographical works in Diogenes Laertius’ The Lives of Eminent Philosophers
  14. Appendix 3 Divisions in collected biographies
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index of biblical passages
  17. Index of ancient passages
  18. Index of modern authors
  19. Index of subjects