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Van Abram tot Susanna : Vertellend de bijbel door.
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ISBN: 9073503361 Year: 2001 Publisher: Antwerpen Halewijn

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The "we" passages in the Acts of the Apostles : the narrator as narrative character
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ISBN: 9781589832053 1589832051 9781435626973 1435626974 Year: 2007 Publisher: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature,


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Many convincing proofs
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ISBN: 9783110459708 3110459701 9783110460377 9783110460193 3110460378 311046019X Year: 2016 Volume: 221 Publisher: Berlin Boston De Gruyter

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While there have been various studies examining the contents of the evangelistic proclamation in Acts; and various studies examining, from one angle or another, individual persuasive phenomena described in Acts (e.g., the use of the Jewish Scriptures); no individual studies have sought to identify the key persuasive phenomena presented by Luke in this book, or to analyse their impact upon the book’s early audiences. This study identifies four key phenomena – the Jewish Scriptures, witnessed supernatural events, the Christian community and Greco-Roman cultural interaction. By employing a textual analysis of Acts that takes into account both narrative and socio-historical contexts, the impact of these phenomena upon the early audiences of Acts – that is, those people who heard or read the narrative in the first decades after its completion – is determined. The investigation offers some unique and nuanced insights into evangelistic proclamation in Acts; persuasion in Acts, persuasion in the ancient world; each of the persuasive phenomena discussed; evangelistic mission in the early Christian church; and the growth of the early Christian church.

The first Christian historian : writing the "Acts of the Apostles"
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ISBN: 0521816505 0521609496 1107134471 0511178158 0511042639 0511148658 0511325924 0511488068 1280434252 0511045867 9780521816502 9780511042638 9780511148651 9780511045868 9780511488061 9781107134478 9781280434259 9780511178153 9780511325922 9780521609494 Year: 2002 Volume: 121 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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As the first historian of Christianity, Luke's reliability is vigorously disputed among scholars. The author of the Acts is often accused of being a biased, imprecise, and anti-Jewish historian who created a distorted portrait of Paul. Daniel Marguerat tries to avoid being caught in this true/false quagmire when examining Luke's interpretation of history. Instead he combines different tools - reflection upon historiography, the rules of ancient historians and narrative criticism - to analyse the Acts and gauge the historiographical aims of their author. Marguerat examines the construction of the narrative, the framing of the plot and the characterization, and places his evaluation firmly in the framework of ancient historiography, where history reflects tradition and not documentation. This is a fresh and original approach to the classic themes of Lucan theology: Christianity between Jerusalem and Rome, the image of God, the work of the Spirit, the unity of Luke and the Acts.


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Luke the historian of Israel's legacy, theologian of Israel's Christ
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ISBN: 9783110255393 3110255391 9783110255409 9783110391961 3110391961 3110255405 9783112189498 3112189493 Year: 2016 Volume: 182 Publisher: Boston

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David Moessner proposes a new understanding of the relation of Luke’s second volume to his Gospel to open up a whole new reading of Luke’s foundational contribution to the New Testament. For postmodern readers who find Acts a ‘generic outlier,’ dangling tenuously somewhere between the ‘mainland’ of the evangelists and the ‘Peloponnese’ of Paul—diffused and confused and shunted to the backwaters of the New Testament by these signature corpora—Moessner plunges his readers into the hermeneutical atmosphere of Greek narrative poetics and elaboration of multi-volume works to inhale the rhetorical swells that animate Luke’s first readers in their engagement of his narrative. In this collection of twelve of his essays, re-contextualized and re-organized into five major topical movements, Moessner showcases multiple Hellenistic texts and rhetorical tropes to spotlight the various signals Luke provides his readers of the multiple ways his Acts will follow "all that Jesus began to do and to teach" (Acts 1:1) and, consequently, bring coherence to this dominant block of the New Testament that has long been split apart. By collapsing the world of Jesus into the words and deeds of his followers, Luke re-configures the significance of Israel’s "Christ" and the "Reign" of Israel’s God for all peoples and places to create a new account of ‘Gospel Acts,’ discrete and distinctively different than the "narrative" of the "many" (Luke 1:1). Luke the Historian of Israel’s Legacy combines what no analysis of the Lukan writings has previously accomplished, integrating seamlessly two ‘generically-estranged’ volumes into one new whole from the intent of the one composer. For Luke is the Hellenistic historian and simultaneously ‘biblical’ theologian who arranges the one "plan of God" read from the script of the Jewish scriptures—parts and whole, severally and together—as the saving ‘script’ for the whole world through Israel’s suffering and raised up "Christ," Jesus of Nazareth. In the introductions to each major theme of the essays, this noted scholar of the Lukan writings offers an epitome of the main features of Luke’s theological ‘thought,’ and, in a final Conclusions chapter, weaves together a comprehensive synthesis of this new reading of the whole.


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Portraits of Pauls Performance in the Book of Acts : Lukes Apologetic Strategy in the Depiction of Paul as Messenger of God
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ISBN: 9783161608605 9783161608599 3161608593 3161608607 Year: 2021 Volume: 556 Publisher: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck

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Arco den Heijer analysiert die Darstellung von Paulus Auftritten in fünf Episoden der Apostelgeschichte und behauptet, dass die Darstellung von Paulus als eindrucksvoller Redner dazu diente, negative Ansichten über Christen sowohl in römischen als auch in jüdischen Kreisen zu entkräften.


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The speeches of outsiders in Acts : poetics, theology and historiography
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ISBN: 9780521175326 0521175321 9780521899819 9780511488146 9780511438738 0511438737 0511488149 0521899818 1107202507 1281903973 9786611903978 0511438060 0511436610 0511435819 0511437390 Year: 2008 Volume: 144 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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How does Luke's portrait of the outsider help in exploring the theology and historiography of Acts? Previous studies of the author and his work have concentrated on the speeches given by insiders - members of the early Christian church - but until now the speeches of the outsiders have been marginalised by scholars in the field. Osvaldo Padilla takes an intriguing approach by concentrating on the direct speech of such figures, arguing that the portrayal of outsiders to a religious movement should not be neglected when considering the author's viewpoint. By exploring the place of outsiders in Old Testament and Second Temple literature, then offering comparisons with the depictions found in Acts, Padilla provides an insightful take on the subject that will prove invaluable to scholars and students of biblical and early Christian studies.

Paraphrase on the Acts of the Apostles
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ISBN: 0802006647 9786612003127 1282003127 144267766X 9781442677661 9780802006646 Year: 1995 Volume: 50 Publisher: Toronto, Ont. Buffalo, N.Y. University of Toronto Press

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Erasmus yearned to make the Bible an effective instrument in the reform of society, church, and everyday life. He therefore composed Paraphrases in which the words of Holy Scripture provided the core of a text, vastly expanded to embrace the reforming `philosophy of Christ.' The Paraphrases were successful beyond all expectations, and were quickly translated into French, English, and other languages. The Paraphrase on Acts is the fifth volume of Paraphrases to be published in the New Testament Scholarship series in the Collected Works of Erasmus.The highly dramatic narrative of Acts offered Erasmus as paraphrast a treasury of golden opportunities. Its personae are kings, governors, high priests, communities of grace, and the ubiquitous and volatile mob. Here are the models to be emulated and to be avoided in both a reformed Europe and a reformed church. In the Paraphrase on Acts the splendour of popes is measured against the simplicity of St Peter, the pride of European kings warned against by the downfall of Herod .The Paraphrase on Acts commands attention also by its manifest efforts to rationalize biblical history. Erasmus persistently shows that the guidance of the Holy Spirit is nevertheless complemented by very human motivations. Moreover, the impressionistic framework of time and space in the biblical account is replaced in the Paraphrase on Acts by a careful definition of events by date and location - offering fascinating insights into the science of geography in Erasmus' day.The reader will recognize many of Erasmus' favourite theological themes, for example the sharp antithesis between faith and ceremonial works. But it is perhaps Erasmus' portrait of the Holy Spirit that will leave the deepest impression - a portrait in which images of fire turn imperceptibly but decisively into ontological realities and moral imperatives.


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Jona
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ISBN: 9061263220 Year: 1976 Publisher: Haarlem Boxtel Nederlands Bijbelgenootschap Katholieke Bijbelstichting


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Koning David
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ISBN: 9061263166 Year: 1980 Publisher: Haarlem Nederlands Bijbelgenootschap

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