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Author Downing, F. Gerald, author

Title Doing things with words in the first Christian century / F. Gerald Downing
Published London : T & T Clark International, 2004
©2000

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Description 1 online resource (273 pages)
Series Library of New Testament studies
Library of New Testament studies.
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 A BAS LES ARISTOS; Chapter 2 WORDS AS DEEDS AND DEEDS AS WORDS; Chapter 3 WORDS AND MEANINGS; Chapter 4 WORD-PROCESSING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD: THE SOCIAL PRODUCTION AND PERFORMANCE OF Q; Chapter 5 A GENRE FOR Q AND A SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXT FOR Q: COMPARING SETS OF SIMILARITIES WITH SETS OF DIFFERENCES; Chapter 6 MARKAN INTERCALATION IN CULTURAL CONTEXT; Chapter 7 A RIVAL TO ROMULUS; Chapter 8 COMPOSITIONAL CONVENTIONS AND THE SYNOPTIC PROBLEM; Chapter 9 A PARADIGM PERPLEX: LUKE, MATTHEW AND MARK
Chapter 10 THEOPHILUS''S FIRST HEARING OF LUKE-ACTSChapter 11 SHIFTING SANDS; Concluding Unscientific Postscript; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Modern Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Index of Ancient Authors; A; B; C; D; E; G; H; J; L; M; O; P; Q; S; T; V; X; Z; Index of Contents; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J ; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X
Summary Although its religious heritage was that of a variegated Judaism, the tiny early Christian movement was nevertheless much more complexly and richly linked with the Graeco-Roman world in which it came to birth than is usually allowed for. In particular, ''ordinary'' people were capable of a sophisticated use of words that can be detected also in the New Testament writings. But the use of words in Graeco-Roman times was often very different from what we suppose, and this collection of studies attempts to identify some of the anachronisms that still pervade even the best of modern scholarship
Notes Originally published as JSNTS 200 by Sheffield Academic Press
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 20, 2014)
SUBJECT Bible. Gospels -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Gospels fast
Subject Christian life -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
Christian life -- Early church
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780567349804
0567349802