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Sight and blindness in Luke-Acts : the use of physical features in characterization / by Chad Hartsock.
Van Pelt Library BS2589.6.C43 H37 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hartsock, Chad.
- Series:
- Biblical interpretation series ; v. 94.
- Biblical interpretation series ; v. 94
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Luke--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Acts--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible. Acts.
- Bible. Luke.
- Character--Biblical teaching.
- Character.
- Blindness in the Bible.
- Physiognomy.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 226 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
- Summary:
- The ancient world often thought in terms of physiognomics-the idea that character can be discerned by studying outward, physical features. That physical descriptions carry moral freight in characterization has been largely missed in modern biblical scholarship, and this study brings that to the forefront. Specifically, this is a study of one particular physical marker-blindness. When we look at Greco-Roman literature, a kind of literary topos begins to emerge, a set of assumptions that ancient audiences would typically make when encountering blind characters. Luke-Acts makes use of such a topos in a way that becomes programmatic, serving as a kind of interpretive key to Luke-Acts that is generally unnoticed in modern scholarship.
- Contents:
- Methodology 2
- Outline of Chapters 4
- Chapter 2 An Introduction to Physiognomy 7
- Physiognomy Defined: Its History and Practice 7
- Introducing the Sources-Handbooks on Physiognomy 12
- The Methods of the Physiognomists 20
- Physiognomy in Practice: Examples in Ancient Literature 28
- Chapter 3 Eyes, Sight, and Blindness: Learning to See with Physiognomic Eyes 53
- Disability in the Greco-Roman World 54
- The Eyes: Window to the Soul 58
- Blindness in Greco-Roman Literature: Developing a Topos 60
- Examples of Blindness in Greco-Roman Literature 65
- Chapter 4 Physiognomy and Blindness in the Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism 83
- Linking Physiognomy to the Old Testament 83
- Examples of Physiognomy in the Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism 85
- Blindness in the Jewish Writings 102
- Chapter 5 Physiognomy and Blindness in the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature 125
- Examples of Physiognomy in the NT and Other Early Christian Literature 125
- Examples of Blindness in the NT and Other Early Christian Literature 143
- Chapter 6 Physiognomy and Blindness in Luke-Acts 167
- Physiognomy in Luke-Acts 167
- Blindness in Luke-Acts 172.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-219) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9789004165359
- 9004165355
- OCLC:
- 192042097
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