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Author : Kylie Crabbe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Bible
ISBN : OCLC:1013524160
Author : Kylie Crabbe
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110614756
Luke/Acts and the End of History investigates how understandings of history in diverse texts of the Graeco-Roman period illuminate Lukan eschatology. In addition to Luke/Acts, it considers ten comparison texts as detailed case studies throughout the monograph: Polybius's Histories, Diodorus Siculus's Library of History, Virgil's Aeneid, Valerius Maximus's Memorable Doings and Sayings, Tacitus’s Histories, 2 Maccabees, the Qumran War Scroll, Josephus's Jewish War, 4 Ezra, and 2 Baruch. The study makes a contribution both in its method and in the questions it asks. By placing Luke/Acts alongside a broad range of texts from Luke's wider cultural setting, it overcomes two methodological shortfalls frequently evident in recent research: limiting comparisons of key themes to texts of similar genre, and separating non-Jewish from Jewish parallels. Further, by posing fresh questions designed to reveal writers' underlying conceptions of history—such as beliefs about the shape and end of history or divine and human agency in history—this monograph challenges the enduring tendency to underestimate the centrality of eschatology for Luke's account. Influential post-war scholarship reflected powerful concerns about "salvation history" arising from its particular historical setting, and criticised Luke for focusing on history instead of eschatology due to the parousia’s delay. Though some elements of this thesis have been challenged, Luke continues to be associated with concerns about the delayed parousia, affecting contemporary interpretation. By contrast, this study suggests that viewing Luke/Acts within a broader range of texts from Luke's literary context highlights his underlying teleological conception of history. It demonstrates not only that Luke retains a sense of eschatological urgency seen in other New Testament texts, but a structuring of history more akin to the literature of late Second Temple Judaism than the non-Jewish Graeco-Roman historiographies with which Luke/Acts is more commonly compared. The results clarify not only Lukan eschatology, but related concerns or effects of his eschatology, such as Luke’s politics and approach to suffering. This monograph thereby offers an important corrective to readings of Luke/Acts based on established exegetical habits, and will help to inform interpretation for scholars and students of Luke/Acts as well as classicists and theologians interested in these key questions.
Author : P.D. James
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780857861078
Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. It describes how the 12 apostles, formerly Jesus's disciples, spread the message of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean against a background of persecution. With an introduction by P.D. James
Author : John T. Carroll
Publisher : Society of Biblical Literature
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038467507
Author : Ming Gao
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783683482
Dr Ming Gao delves into the much-overlooked heaven motif in Luke-Acts in this critical study of a central element in Christian belief. Focusing on several key passages from the biblical canon, Gao analyzes them in their Jewish, Greco-Roman and broader literary contexts to enhance our comprehension of the meaning of “heaven” and its significance for our worldview. Heaven is not simply a static place where God dwells or a symbol of his power, but is a dynamic arena that impacts the earthly realm. Dr Gao also elucidates how heaven, as well as being part of reality, acts as a concept that points to the arrival of God’s eschatological kingdom on earth. This book will enhance efforts to understand “heaven,” which is often viewed as an unfathomable mystery by so many Christians.
Author : David Lenz Tiede
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:49015001252676
Author : Susan Wendel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004201590
Although scholars often assume that Luke and Justin similarly claim the sacred texts of Jews for the non-Jewish church, this book offers a fresh analysis that uncovers significant differences between their respective depictions of the relationship between Christ-believers and the Jewish scriptures.
Author : David L. Tiede
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608153303
Author : Jens Schröter,Benjamin A. Edsall,Joseph Verheyden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110742213
The present volume is based on a conference held in October 2019 at the Faculty of Theology of Humboldt University Berlin as part of a common project of the Australian Catholic University, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Humboldt University Berlin. The aim is to discuss the relationships of “Jews” and “Christians” in the first two centuries CE against the background of recent debates which have called into question the image of “parting ways” for a description of the relationships of Judaism and Christianity in antiquity. One objection raised against this metaphor is that it accentuates differences at the expense of commonalities. Another critique is that this image looks from a later perspective at historical developments which can hardly be grasped with such a metaphor. It is more likely that distinctions between Jews, Christians, Jewish Christians, Christian Jews etc. are more blurred than the image of “parting ways” allows. In light of these considerations the contributions in this volume discuss the cogency of the “parting of the ways”-model with a look at prominent early Christian writers and places and suggest more appropriate metaphors to describe the relationships of Jews and Christians in the early period.
Author : Mark Allan Powell
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506460505
With clarity and verve, Mark Allen Powell introduces the beginning student to the contents and structure of the Gospels, their distinctive characteristics, and their major themes. An introductory chapter surveys the political, religious, and social world of the Gospels, methods of approaching early Christian texts, the genre of the Gospels, and the religious character of these writings. This second edition has been updated to take fuller account of different theories regarding the Gospels, with new chapters on the historical Jesus and on gospel literature not included in our New Testament, and with a pleasing new format. Special features include illustrations and more than two dozen special topics.
Author : John T. Squires
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467454353
This extract from the Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible provides Squires’ introduction to and concise commentary on Acts. The Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible presents, in nontechnical language, the best of modern scholarship on each book of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. Reader-friendly commentary complements succinct summaries of each section of the text and will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers Rather than attempt a verse-by-verse analysis, these volumes work from larger sense units, highlighting the place of each passage within the overarching biblical story. Commentators focus on the genre of each text—parable, prophetic oracle, legal code, and so on—interpreting within the historical and literary context. The volumes also address major issues within each biblical book—including the range of possible interpretations—and refer readers to the best resources for further discussions.
Author : Clare K. Rothschild
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Acts of Thomas
ISBN : 3161482034
Revised thesis (Ph.D.)- -University of Chicago, Chicago, 2003.
Author : Anne Elvey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567695147
Winner of the 2023 ANZATS Award for the Best Monograph by an Established Scholar Applying a re-envisioned, ecological, feminist hermeneutics, this book builds on two important responses to twentieth- and twenty-first-century situations of ecological trauma, especially the complex contexts of climate change and cross-species relations: first, ecological feminism; second, ecological hermeneutics in the Earth Bible tradition. By way of readings of selected biblical texts, this book suggests that an ecological feminist aesthetic, bringing present situation and biblical text into conversation through engagement with activism and literature, principally poetry, is helpful in decolonizing ethics. Such an approach is both informed by and speaks back to the new materialism in ecological criticism.
Author : Charles B. Puskas
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556352355
The conclusion of Luke-Acts is regarded as one of the most important chapters of Luke's two-volume work. Several significant Lukan themes are found in Acts 28, all of which make some contribution to the purpose and aim of the author in writing Luke-Acts: the Gentile mission, the triumph of God's Word, and the relationship of Christianity with Judaism and Rome. Acts 28 contains many historical problems that have been debated for centuries, including the we statements, the figure of Paul in Acts 28, and the abrupt-ending. Puskas compares the conclusion of Acts with other important chapters of Luke-Acts: the introduction of the Gospel, the conclusion of Acts, the defense of Paul chapters, as well as other passages. In this significant chapter of Acts 28 there are still fundamental problems of exegesis that need to be addressed: What is the literary function of Acts 28? What is Luke trying to tell his readers in the text?
Author : Gregory K. Beale
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441167248
This book explores the variety of ways John contextually uses the Old Testament in the Apocalypse. The introduction surveys and evaluates recent studies, which have been divided over the issue of whether or not John uses the Old Testament with sensitivity to its original literary context (Beale, Fekkes and Bauckham argue in the affirmative, while Ruiz and Moyise contend that this was not John's focus and see implications for 'reader-response criticism'). The remainder of the book looks at various ways in which John uses the Old Testament and argues that there is a reciprocal interpretative relationship between the Old Testament and the Apocalypse. Studies of special interest concern the bearing of the Old Testament on Revelation's eschatology, on the issue of the millennium, and on the thorny problem of the grammatical solecisms.