Reading Acts today : essays in honour of Loveday C.A. Alexander / edited by Steve Walton, Thomas E. Phillips, Lloyd Keith Pietersen, F. Scott Spencer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alexander, Loveday.

Walton, Steve, 1955-

Phillips, Thomas E.

Pietersen, Lloyd.

Spencer, F. Scott (Franklin Scott)

Series:

Library of New Testament studies ; 427.

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Library of New Testament studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alexander, Loveday.

Bible. Acts--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Acts.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : T & T Clark, [2011]

Contents:

Introduction: The honouree: Loveday Alexander / Lloyd K. Pietersen

Part I. Reading Acts in its ancient context

The genre of Acts: revisited / Richard A. Burridge

Why did Mary wrap the newborn Jesus in "swaddling clothes"?: Luke 2.7 and 2.12 in the context of Luke/Acts and first-century literature / Thomas E. Phillips

Luke's use of Papias for narrating the death of Judas / Dennis R. MacDonald

Scared to death: the rhetoric of fear in the "tragedy" of Ananias and Sapphira / F. Scott Spencer

Does the road to Damascus run through the letters of Paul? / R. Barry Matlock

Part II. Reading themes in Acts

Luke/Acts, or Luke and Acts?: a reaffirmation of narrative unity / Joel B. Green

Luke's Jerusalem perspective / James D.G. Dunn

Philological and performative perspectives on Pentecost / Heidi J. Hornik and Mikeal C. Parsons

The place of Acts 20.28 in Luke's theology of the cross / I. Howard Marshall

The resurrection and its witnesses in the book of Acts / Daniel Marguerat

A spirituality of Acts? / Steve Walton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-217) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780567238139

056723813X

OCLC:

657604532