The early Christian community : a narrative analysis of Acts 2:41-47 and 4:32-35 / Douglas A. Hume.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hume, Douglas A., 1969-

Series:

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2.Reihe - Band 298

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe, 0340-9570 ; 298

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Acts--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Church--Biblical teaching.

Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Edition:

1. Aufl.

Place of Publication:

Tubingen : Mohr Siebeck, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hauptbeschreibung Douglas A. Hume offers a narrative ethical reading of the passages depicting the early Christian community in Acts (2:41-47 and 4:32-35). He begins with a methodological exploration of how contemporary scholars may examine the impact of biblical narratives upon reader's moral imaginations. Given the presence of friendship language in Acts, the work subsequently launches into an examination of this idiom in Greco-Roman philosophical and literary works by Aristotle, Plutarch, Diogenes Laertius, and Iamblichus. The author then proceeds to an exegetical examination of

Contents:

Cover; Preface; Table of Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction The Question of Ethical Interpretation and the Depictions of the Early Community in Acts; I. The Problem; II. A Proposal; Chapter 1: Reading Acts 2:41-47 and 4:32-35: Retrospect and Prospect; I. Acts 2:41-47 and 4:32-35 in Twentieth-Century Scholarship; A. The Narrative Summaries in Source, Form, and Redaction Criticism; B. The Narrative Summaries in Synchronic Literary Criticism; C. Summary; D. A Survey of Ethical Interpretations of the Narrative Summaries

1. Deontological Appeals: Reflecting on the Summaries through Lukan Theology2. Teleological Appeals: Reflecting on the Summaries through History and Ideals; 3. Analogical Appeals: Reflecting on the Summaries through Moral Imagination; 4. The Particularistic Historical Appeal: Reflecting on the Summaries through the Moral Ethos of the Greco-Roman world; E. Summary of Twentieth-Century Approaches; II. Narrative Ethics; A. Narrative Criticism; B. Narrative Theology; C. Ethical Interpretation in Literary Criticism; D. The Triadic Structure of Newton's Narrative Ethics

1. Narrational Ethics and its Application to Luke-Acts2. Representational Ethics; 3. Applying Representational Ethics to Luke-Acts; 4. Hermeneutic Ethics and its Application to Luke-Acts; E. Illustrating Narrative Ethics: "Reading the Bible with the Damned"; III. Conclusion to Chapter One; Chapter 2: Friendship Language in Classical and Hellenistic Literature; I. Friendship Maxims in Classical and Hellenistic Literature; II. Friendship in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics; A. Aristotle's Definition of Friendship; B. Three Kinds of Friendship in Aristotle's Polis

C. Reciprocity and Hierarchy in Aristotelian Friendship and SocietyD. The Self and Community; E. Marriage, Family Life, and Friendship; III. Plutarch's "Advice to Bride and Groom"; A. Literary Analysis; B. The Friendship Idiom in the Moral Context of the Letter; IV. The Use of Friendship Maxims in Three Biographies by Diogenes Laertius; A. Diogenes Laertius' Life of Bion; B. Diogenes Laertius' Life of Pythagoras; C. Diogenes Laertius' Life of Epicurus; V. Iamblichus' "On the Pythagorean Way of Life"; A. Literary Analysis; B. The Friendship Idiom in the Moral Context of the Narrative

VI. ConclusionChapter 3: Friends of God in God's Community: Friendship Language in Acts 2:41-47; I. God, Friendship, and the Characters of Acts; II. Summary, Scene, and Repetition in Narrative Analysis; A. The Function of Acts 2:41-47 and 4:32-35 as Narrative Summaries; B. Focalization and Repetition in Narrative Analysis; C. Common Elements and Repetition in 2:41-47 and 4:32-35; III. Analysis of the First Narrative Summary: Acts 2:41-47; A. Contours and Characters; B. Narrative Context of Acts 2:41-47; C. Elements of Friendship in Acts 2:41-47

1. Persevering in Friendship through Trusting in God

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-170) and indexes.

Druckversion

ISBN:

1-280-04502-7

9786613518590

3-16-151641-9

OCLC:

782880092