Acts and Christian beginnings
Subtitle: the Acts Seminar report
By: edited by Dennis E. Smith and Joseph B. Tyson
Publisher: Polebridge Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Salem, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781598151350
Subjects: Bibel; Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Urchristentum
Description: Collection of essays drawn from the Seminar on the Acts of the Apostle, which met from 2006 to 2011, whose results were presented at the fall and spring meetings of the Westar Institute. The results have also been published in he journals Forum and The fourth R.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-354) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: The date of Acts  -- Richard I. Pervo; title: Marcion and the date of Acts  -- Joseph B. Tyson; title: The author of Acts  -- Dennis E. Smith; title: Sources in Acts  -- Perry V. Kea; title: The text of Acts  -- Richard I. Pervo; title: Acts, myth, and history  -- Joseph B. Tyson -- chapter 1. Beginning in Jerusalem (Acts 1:1-8:3).; title: Names in Acts  -- Christine R. Shea; title: Deconstructing the resurrection narrative in Luke-Acts  -- Dennis E. Smith; title: Apostleship in early Christianity  -- Joseph B. Tyson; title: Jerusalem in myth and history  -- Milton Moreland; title: Speeches in Acts  -- Richard I. Pervo; title: The association model  -- Dennis E. Smith; title: When apostles become philosophers  -- Rubén Dupertuis; title: Prison breaks in Luke's literary world  -- Dennis R. MacDonald; title: Hellenists and Hebrews  -- Perry V. Kea; title: Stephen  -- Shelly Matthews -- chapter 2. To Judea, Samaria, and beyond (Acts 8:4-9:43).; title: The Gentile mission source  -- Richard I. Pervo; title: Comparing Paul and Luke on Paul's conversion  -- Thomas E. Phillips; title: The letters of Paul as sources for Acts  -- William O. Walker, Jr. -- chapter 3. Antioch and Jerusalem (Acts 10:1-15:35).; title: What really happened at the Jerusalem council?  -- William O. Walker, Jr.; title: The so-called Noahide laws  -- Nina E. Livesey -- chapter 4. Paul in Asia and Greece (Acts 15:36-19:41).; title: We-passages in the Acts of the Apostles  -- Dennish R. MacDonald; title: Women in Acts  -- Shelly Matthews; title: The itinerary of Paul  -- Dennis E. Smith and Joseph B. Tyson; title: The Gallio episode  -- Dennis E. Smith; title: Priscilla and Aquila  -- William O. Walker, Jr.; title: Artemis of Ephesus  -- Christine R. Shea -- chapter 5. To the ends of the earth (Acts 20:1-28:31).; title: The Jews according to Acts  -- Shelly Matthews; title: Shipwrecks in Luke's literary world -- Dennis R. MacDonald-- Conclusion.