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Doing things with words in the first Christian century / F. Gerald Downing.
Van Pelt Library BS2555.2 .D69 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Downing, F. Gerald, 1935-
- Series:
- Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 200.
- Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 200
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jesus Christ--Historicity.
- Jesus Christ.
- Bible. Acts.
- Bible. Gospels.
- Historicity of Jesus Christ.
- Bible. Gospels--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Gospels--Language, style.
- Bible. Acts--Reader-response criticism.
- Q hypothesis (Synoptics criticism).
- Rhetoric in the Bible.
- Performative (Philosophy).
- Reader-response criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 268 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- Although its religious heritage was that of a variegated Judaism, the tiny early Christian movement was nevertheless much more complexly and richly linked with the Graeco-Roman world in which it came to birth than is usually allowed for. In particular, 'ordinary' people were capable of a sophisticated use of words that can be detected also in the New Testament writings. But the use of words in Graeco-Roman times was often very different from what we suppose, and this collection of studies attempts to identify some of the anachronisms that still pervade even the best of modern scholarship.
- Notes:
- "Seven of these pieces have appeared in other publications ... ; one will appear elsewhere ... Three chapters ... appear here for the first time"--Acknowledgments.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [236]-249) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1841271519
- OCLC:
- 45571281
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