- Engaging Early Christian History
Reading Acts In The Second Century
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- Series: BibleWorld
- Editor(s):
Rubén R. Dupertuis and Todd Penner
- ISBN: 1844657353
- ISBN-13: 9781844657353
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2013
- Pages: 288 (234 x 156 mm)
- Format: Hardback
- Published Price: £65.00
- Discount Price: £52.00
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DESCRIPTION:
The book of Acts has traditionally been situated within a first-century setting, offering an apparently straightforward account of the origins and spread of Christianity. Engaging Early Christian History presents a significant departure for Christian origins studies by setting aside the explicitly historical questions commonly asked of the Acts of the Apostles and, instead, situating the text within the context of second-century history and culture. The volume extends scholarly debate beyond the analysis of pure historical debates and concerns to focus on the associations between Acts and the diverse contemporaneous texts, writers, and broader cultural phenomena in the second-century world of Christians, Romans, Greeks, and Jews. Examining the reception of Acts – and of Christian myth-making more generally – the volume explores the second century as a formative epoch for Christian storytelling, historical reimaginings, and reconfigurations of religious and social identities.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Rubén R. Dupertuis is Associate Professor of Religion Department at Trinity University, Texas. Todd Penner is Gould H. and Marie Cloud Professor of Religious Studies at Austin College, Texas. He is co-author of Contextualizing Gender in Early Christian Discourse: Thinking beyond Thecla.
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CONTENTS:
1. Reading Acts in the Second Century: Why Does It Matter? Todd Penner
2. Jerusalem Destroyed: The Setting of Acts, Milton Moreland
3. Acts and the Apostles: Issues of Leadership in the Second Century, Joseph Tyson
4. Spec(tac)ular Sights: Mirroring in/of Acts, David M. Reis
5. Acts of Ascension: History, Exaltation and Ideological Legitimation, David McCabe
6. Time and Space Travel in Luke-Acts, John Moles
7. The Complexity of Pairing: Reading Acts 16 with Plutarch’s Lives, Marianne Bjelland Kartzow
8. Constructing Paul as a Christian in the Acts of the Apostles, Christopher Mount
9. Parrhsi/a, Opposition and Philosophical Imagery in Acts, Rubén R. Dupertuis
10. Among the Apologists? Reading Acts with Justin Martyr, Andrew Gregory
11. The Second Sophistic and Luke’s Characterization of Paul in Acts 13–28, Ryan Carhart
12. Reading Luke-Acts in Alexandria in the Second Century: From Clement to the Shadow of Apollos, Claire Clivaz
