TY - BOOK ID - 3039461 TI - Commission narratives : a comparative study of the canonical and apocryphal acts PY - 2007 VL - 8 SN - 9789042918450 9042918454 PB - Leuven : Peeters, DB - UniCat KW - Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles KW - Actes apocryphes des Apôtres KW - Criticism, Narrative. KW - Critique narrative KW - Bible. KW - 229*42 KW - Acts (Apocryphal books) KW - Acts of the Apostles (Apocryphal books) KW - Apocryphal books (New Testament) KW - Apocriefe handelingen der apostelen van Andreas, Barnabas, Philippus, Jacobus, Johannes, Matthaeus, Paulus, Petrus, Pilatus, Thomas, Paulus en Thecla, Petrus en Paulus KW - Acts (Book of the New Testament) KW - Acts of the Apostles KW - Chongdo haengjŏn KW - Sado haengjŏn KW - 229*42 Apocriefe handelingen der apostelen van Andreas, Barnabas, Philippus, Jacobus, Johannes, Matthaeus, Paulus, Petrus, Pilatus, Thomas, Paulus en Thecla, Petrus en Paulus KW - Actes apocryphes des Apôtres KW - Criticism, Narrative KW - Criticism [Narrative ] KW - Bible. N.T. Acts KW - Apocriefen. KW - Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles. KW - Handelingen der Apostelen (bijbelboek). KW - Roepingsverhalen. KW - Apokryphe Apostelgeschichten. KW - Bibel KW - Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles - Criticism, Narrative UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3039461 AB - "Commission Narratives is based on the author's doctoral dissertation in Groningen (2002). The monograph offers the first overarching, comparative treatment of commission narratives in the canonical and apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, analysing them in their ancient literary setting. Following a survey of this widespread narrative theme in the cultural environment of early Christianity, Czachesz establishes a threefold social typology of divine commission (institutional, prophetic and philosophical) and explores the occurrences of the three types in the canonical and apocryphal Acts. The central chapters of the book provide a close reading of the textual evidence, investigating intertextual relations, the function of commission in the narrative structure, and the biographical models of self-definition that commission stories offered to the ancient readers in their changing social and ecclesiastical environments. Based on his textual analysis, Czachesz makes new proposals about the reconstruction, Sitz im Leben and dating of several apocryphal Acts. Finally, he examines the synchronic structure of commission, showing that the variety of commission narratives emerges from a constant set of motifs that are generated by interactions among the characters."--Jacket. ER -