History, biography, and the genre of Luke-Acts : an exploration of literary divergence in Greek narrative discourse / by Andrew W. Pitts.

Unlike contemporary literary-linguistic configurations of genre, current methodologies for the study of the Gospel genre are designed only to target genre similarities not genre differences. This basic oversight results in the convoluted discussion we witness in Lukan genre study today. Each recent...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Pitts, Andrew W. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.
Series:Biblical interpretation series ; v. 177.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents; Tables and Figures; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Genre and Method in Luke-Acts Research; 1 The Origins of a Consensus; 2 What Went Wrong?; 3 What is the Solution? 'New' Genre Studies as a Way Forward; 4 Genre Agnation and the 'New' Genre Studies; 5 Typological Agnation Analysis: Assessing Genre Differences; 6 Topological Agnation Analysis: Proximating Genre Likeness; 7 Conceptions of History and Biography in Antiquity; 8 Evolutionary Topology and Genre Proximity; 9 Genre Elasticity and Blurring; 10 Typological Analysis of Greek Historical Genres.