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Shaping the Past to Define the Present

Luke-Acts and Apologetic Historiography

By: Gregory E. Sterling

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Shaping the Past to Define the Present

Luke-Acts and Apologetic Historiography

By: Gregory E. Sterling

Uncovering ancient texts and rethinking early Christian identity with the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles Shaping the Past to Define the Present comprises both new and revised essays by esteemed New Testament scholar Gregory E. Sterling on Jewish and early Christian historiography. A sequel to his seminal work, Historiography and Self-Definition, this volume expands on Sterling’s reading of Luke-Acts in the context of contemporary Jewish and Greek historiography. These systematically arranged essays comprise his new and revised contributions to the field of biblical studies, exploring: the genre of apologetic historiography exemplified by Josephus and Eusebius the context of Josephus’s work within a larger tradition of Eastern historiography the initial composition and circulation of Luke and Acts the relationship of Luke-Acts to the Septuagint the interpretation of the Diaspora in Luke-Acts the structure of salvation history as it is manifested in Luke-Acts Socratic influences on Luke’s portrayal of Jesus’s death the early Jerusalem Christian community as depicted in Acts compared with other Hellenized Eastern traditions such as Egyptian priests and Indian sages the establishment of Christianity’s “socially respectability” as a guiding purpose in Luke-Acts Engaging with current critical frameworks, Sterling offers readers a comprehensive analysis of early Christian self-definition through Judeo-Christian historiography.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1467465887

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Scripture and Social Justice

Catholic and Ecumenical Essays

By: Anathea E. Portier-Young,Gregory E. Sterling,Stephen P. Ahearne-Kroll,Harold W. Attridge,Corrine Carvalho,Adela Yarbro Collins,John J. Collins,John R. Donahue,John Endres,Gina Hens-Piazza,Julia D. E. Prinz

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Scripture and Social Justice

Catholic and Ecumenical Essays

The essays gathered here provide a panoramic view of current thinking on biblical texts that play important roles in contemporary struggles for social justice – either as inspiration or impediment. Here, from the hands of an ecumenical array of leading biblical scholars, are fresh and compelling resources for thinking biblically about what justice is and what it demands. Individual essays treat key debates, themes, and texts, locating each within its historical and cultural settings while also linking them to the most pressing justice concerns of the twenty-first century. The volume aims to challenge academic and ecclesiastical complacency and highlight key avenues for future scholarship and action.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1978702892

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Sapiential Perspectives: Wisdom Literature in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium of The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 20-22 May, 2001

By: Gregory Sterling

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Sapiential Perspectives: Wisdom Literature in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium of The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 20-22 May, 2001

By: Gregory Sterling

The papers in this volume were originally read at the Sixth International Orion Symposium. The primary focus of the volume is on the wisdom texts from Qumran that have been fully edited only in recent years, especially 1Q/4QMysteries and 4QInstruction. Prior to the discovery of the Scrolls, our knowledge of wisdom literature in the Second Temple period was limited to contemporary biblical books, apocryphal works, and pseudepigraphical writings. These recently published compositions now allow for a more nuanced picture of wisdom literature and its impact on and interaction with other genres. In addition to shedding light on the world of their authors, these texts illustrate how biblical wisdom was reused in new contexts, and provide a missing link between earlier and later sapiential compositions.

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BRILL

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9047412753

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Historiography and Self-Definition

Josephos, Luke-acts and Apologetic Historiography

By: Gregory Sterling

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Josephos, Luke-acts and Apologetic Historiography

By: Gregory Sterling

For centuries scholars have recognized the apologetic character of the Hellenistic Jewish historians, Josephos, and Luke-Acts; they have not, however, adequately addressed their possible relationships to each other and to their wider cultures. In this first full systematic effort to set these authors within the framework of Greco-Roman traditions, Professor Sterling has used genre criticism as a method for locating a distinct tradition of historical writing, apologetic historiography. Apologetic historiography is the story of a subgroup of people which deliberately Hellenizes the traditions of the group in an effort to provide a self-definition within the context of the larger world. It arose as a result of a dialectic relationship with Greek ethnography. This work traces the evolution of this tradition through three major eras of eastern Mediterranean history spanning six hundred years: the Persian, the Greek, and the Roman.

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Josephos, Luke-acts and Apologetic Historiography

By: Gregory Sterling

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Scripture and Social Justice

Catholic and Ecumenical Essays

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Shaping the Past to Define the Present

Shaping the Past to Define the Present

Scripture and Social Justice

Scripture and Social Justice

Sapiential Perspectives: Wisdom Literature in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Sapiential Perspectives: Wisdom Literature in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Historiography and Self-Definition

Historiography and Self-Definition

Historiography and Self-Definition

Historiography and Self-Definition

Scripture and Social Justice

Scripture and Social Justice

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