Luke-Acts and 'tragic history'
Subtitle: communicating Gospel with the world
By: DooHee Lee
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe -- 346; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 346.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Tübingen, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9783161525513
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Historiography; Bible; Geschichtsschreibung; Frühjudentum; Antika influenser; Christianity; Bibeln; Language, style; Historiografi; Tragik; Rezeption; Tragic, The, in the Bible; Communication; History and criticism; Tragedy; Historia; Religiösa aspekter; Litterär stil
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-295) and indexes.

Text in English, excerpts in ancient Greek.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Genre issue of Luke-acts and previous scholarship about 'tragic history' --; title: The Genre of Luke-acts : biography, novel, epic or history? --; title: Incomplete understanding -- or misunderstanding of 'Tragic history' --; title: An introduction to 'tragic history' --; title: What ls 'Tragic history' about? --; title: The origin of tragic history --; title: Concluding remarks --; title: 'tragic history' in Greco-Roman historiographical tradition --; title: Tragic style in herodotus's histories --; title: The Atys/Adrastus episode --; title: The Gyges/Candaules episode : choice between two necessities as a tragic motif --; title: Croesus, a paradigmatic tragic figure : his late-learning (...) as a tragic motif --; title: The defeat of Xerxes and the persian Armies by the Greeks --; title: Tragic style in Thucydides' history of the peloponnesian war --; title: Thucydides' tragic perspective on a reversal of fortune --; title: A mini-tragedy of Cleon and Athens at Amphipolis in Chalcidice --; title: A tragic downfall of Athens in Sicily (Books 6-7) --; title: A tragic sensitivity of Thucydides : an emphasis on Pathos --; title: Duris of Samos and Phylarchus of Athens --; title: Duris of Samos --; title: Phylarchus of Athens --; title: Tragic style in Polybius's histories --; title: Polybius's comparison of history with tragedy : Is Polybius arguing : that his historiography is a 'Truly' tragic history? --; title: Tragic reversal of Hasdrubal 's fortune --; title: Vivid and emotional presentation --; title: Concluding remarks --; title: Tragic style in Dionysius of Halicamassus's Roman antiquities --; title: Tragic Combat between the Kinsmen, the Horatii and the Curiatii (Roman Antiquities 3.1-22) --; title: Tragic sequel : Horatius's murder of his own sister --; title: Tragic elements in Dionysius's Coriolanus episode --; title: Tragic style in Plutarch's Parallel lives --; title: Reconsideration of the concept of Literary Genre in the Ancient world : is biography a Genre sharply distinct from historiography? --; title: The life of Alexander --; title: The life of Demetrius --; title: The lives of Pyrrhus and Marius --; title: The life of Crassus and Euripides' Bacchae --; title: Excursus : clothes as symbols of fortunes and Hubris in Plutarch --; title: Concluding remarks --; title: Tragic style in Livy's Ab urbe condita --; title: The tragedy of the Sabine women (Ab urbe condita 1.9-13) --; title: Tragic Dilemma in the story of Horatius (Ab urbe condita 1.24-26) --; title: A tragic Dilemma in the episode of Titus Manlius (Ab urbe condita 8.7) --; title: Livy's Portrayal of Hannibal as a tragic hero (Hannibal's ...) --; title: Vivid representation of scenes : ... --; title: Another literary device of Livy for ... of the readers --; title: Concluding remarks --; title: 'Tragic history' in Jewish-Hellenistic historiography : Flavius Josephus --; title: Josephus's tragic style in Bellum Judaicum --; title: The Siege of Jerusalem and its temple --; title: The Cannibalism of Mary and the destruction of the temple --; title: The group suicide at Masada --; title: Josephus's tragic style in Antiquitates --; title: Sarra and Pharaoh --; title: Noah's Floodand the tower of Babel (Ant. 1.72-119) --; title: King Amaziah as a tragic figure (Ant. 9.186-204) --; title: Haman as a tragic Figure (Ant. 11.273-283) --; title: Heightening of dramatic suspense --; title: Graphic and Vivid description of the Korah Rebellion --; title: Concluding remarks --; title: 'tragic history' in Luke-acts --; title: Tragic language and Allusion to Greek tragedy in Luke-acts --; title: The phrase "to kick against the Goad (...) " in acts 26:14 --; title: The term ... in acts 5:39 --; title: The prison-escape scenes in acts 12 and 16 --; title: The popularity of Euripides' Bacchae in the Hellenistic period --; title: Concluding remarks --; title: Tragic disasters in Luke-acts caused by 'Greed for more or what is not one's own (...)' --; title: Luke 's special concern with possessions --; title: The tragedy of Judas Iscariot (acts 1:15-20) --; title: The tragedy of Ananias and Sapphira (acts 5:1-11) --; title: Reversal of fortune of the Rieh man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31) --; title: Concluding remarks --; title: Luke's tragic style in the portrait of king Herod (acts 12) --; title: Reminder of parallels in Greco-Roman historiography --; title: Josephus's portrait of Herod Agrippa I in antiquities (19.343-352) --; title: Luke's portrait of Herod Agrippal in acts 12 --; title: Tragic style in Paul's journey to Jerusalem (acts 20:1-21:16) --; title: Exceptional Appeal to Emotions as a Trace of the Tragic Style in Acts --; title: Dilemma between Two Conflicting Causes : human cause vs. divine cause? --; title: The tragedy of Israel in Luke-acts --; title: Luke's tragic vision of Israel recognized in speeches by Peter and Paul in acts --; title: Luke's Jerusalem Narrative as a tragedy of Israel (Luke 19:28-24:53) --; title: The tragedy of Israel repeated in their rejection of the Apostles? --; title: Concluding remarks --; title: Conclusion : reconsideration of the literary Genre of Luke-acts ---- Bibliography-- Index of sources-- Index of modern authors-- Subject index.