The first Christian historian : writing the "Acts of the Apostles" / Daniel Marguerat ; translated by Ken McKinney, Gregory J. Laughery, and Richard Bauckham.
Luke is considered the first historian of Christianity, but his reliability is vigorously disputed among scholars. Daniel Marguerat avoids this true/false quagmire by setting his evaluation of Luke's talent as a historian firmly within the framework of ancient historiography, the rules of ancie...
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| Other title: | Première histoire du christianisme. English. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English French |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Monograph series (Society for New Testament Studies) ;
121. |
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| Summary: | Luke is considered the first historian of Christianity, but his reliability is vigorously disputed among scholars. Daniel Marguerat avoids this true/false quagmire by setting his evaluation of Luke's talent as a historian firmly within the framework of ancient historiography, the rules of ancient historians and narrative criticism. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 299 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-281) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511042639 9780511042638 0511148658 9780511148651 0511045867 9780511045868 9780521816502 0521816505 9780511488061 0511488068 1107134471 9781107134478 1280434252 9781280434259 0511178158 9780511178153 0511325924 9780511325922 9780521609494 0521609496 |