Contested ethnicities and images
Subtitle: studies in Acts and art
By: David L. Balch
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 345; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 345.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Tübingen, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9783161523366
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Bible; Rezeption; Etniska konflikter; Etnicitet i Bibeln; Bibel; Kristendom och konst; Vroege christendom; Roman Art; Zeithintergrund; Handelingen der Apostelen (bijbelboek); Kunstafbeeldingen; Konst i Bibeln; History of contemporary events; Ethnicity in the Bible; Historia; Religiösa aspekter; Ethnicity; Kristendom och samhälle; Kunst
Description: xx, 479 pages ; 24 cm. +
Notes: Consists mainly of republished essays.

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ancient images and visual representations.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Luke-Acts; title: The contested movements in Rome, Athens, and Jerusalem toward citizenships/memberships of multiple ethnicities; title: Two apologetic encomia : Dionysius on Rome and Josephus on the Jews; title: The Areopagus speech : an appeal to the Stoic historian Posidonius against later Stoics and the Epicureans; title: Rich and poor, proud and humble in Luke-Acts; title: Paul in Acts : '... you teach all the Jews ... to forsake Moses, teling them not to ... observe the customs' (Acts 21:21); title: Political friendship in the historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities; title: Attitudes toward foreigners in 2 Maccabees, Eupolemus, Esther, Aristeas, and Luke-Acts; title: [akribos] ... [grapsi] (Luke 1:3) : to write the full history of God's receiving all nations; title: The cultural origin of 'receiving all nations' in Luke-Acts : Alexander the Great or Roman social policy?; title: [metabole politeion] : Jesus as founder of the church in Luke-Acts : form and function; title: Accepting others : God's boundary crossing according to Isaiah and Luke-Acts; title: pt. 2. Roman art and the New Testament; title: Image and text in Luke-Acts : subverting Roman imperial images; title: Women prophets/maenads visually represented in two Roman colonies : Pompeii and Corinth; title: Artists in pre-Roman Corinth and Sicyon; title: Values of Roman women including priests visually represented in Pompeii and Herculaneum; title: The church sitting in a garden (1 Cor 14:30; Rom 16:23; Mark 6:39-40; 8:6; John 6:3, 10; Acts 1:15; 2:1-2); title: Cult statues of Augustus' temple of Apollo on the Palatine in Rome, Artemis'/Diana's birthday in Ephesus, and Revelation 12:1-5a; title: Women's fatal loves in art and text : Helen, Medea, Phaedra, Thecla, Perpetua, and Felicitas; title: pt. 3. Book reviews; title: A summary and critique of Nicolas Waiter, The ideology of classicism : language, history and identity in Dionysius of Halicarnassus; title: Review of Frederick E. Brenk, With unperfumed voice.