TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adams,Sean A.
TI  - The Genre of Acts and Collected Biography
T2  - Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
SN  - 9781139644488 (ebook)
AV  - BS2625.52 .A33 2013
U1  - 223.6/066 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Literary form
KW  - Biography as a literary form
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - It is widely accepted by New Testament scholars that the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles probably originated as two parts of one work by a single author. In spite of this, the books have been assigned to very different genres: Luke is traditionally viewed as a biography of Jesus, and Acts as a history of the early church. Comparing in detail the structure and content of Acts with the formal features of history, novel, epic and biography, Sean Adams challenges this division. Applying both ancient and modern genre theory, he argues that the best genre parallel for the Acts of the Apostles is in fact collected biography. Offering a nuanced and sophisticated understanding of genre theory, along with an insightful argument regarding the composition and purpose of Acts, this book will be of interest to those studying the New Testament, Acts, genre theory and ancient literature
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139644488
ER  -