Reading Acts today
Subtitle: essays in honour of Loveday C.A. Alexander
By: edited by Steve Walton ... [et. al.].
Series: Library of New Testament studies -- 427; T & T Clark library of biblical studies; Library of New Testament studies -- 427.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Publisher: T & T Clark
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780567238139
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Bible
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-217) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The honouree: Loveday Alexander  -- Lloyd K. Pietersen; title: Part I. Reading Acts in its ancient context --; title: The genre of Acts: revisited  -- Richard A. Burridge; title: 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; title: Luke's use of Papias for narrating the death of Judas  -- Dennis R. MacDonald; title: Scared to death: the rhetoric of fear in the "tragedy" of Ananias and Sapphira  -- F. Scott Spencer; title: Does the road to Damascus run through the letters of Paul?  -- R. Barry Matlock; title: Part II. Reading themes in Acts --; title: Luke/Acts, or Luke and Acts?: a reaffirmation of narrative unity  -- Joel B. Green; title: Luke's Jerusalem perspective  -- James D.G. Dunn; title: Philological and performative perspectives on Pentecost  -- Heidi J. Hornik and Mikeal C. Parsons; title: The place of Acts 20.28 in Luke's theology of the cross  -- I. Howard Marshall; title: The resurrection and its witnesses in the book of Acts  -- Daniel Marguerat; title: A spirituality of Acts? -- Steve Walton.