World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age

Author:   C. Kavin Rowe (Assistant Professor of New Testament, Assistant Professor of New Testament, Duke University Divinity School)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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Pages:   312
Publication Date:   10 September 2009
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Author:   C. Kavin Rowe (Assistant Professor of New Testament, Assistant Professor of New Testament, Duke University Divinity School)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 16.50cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780195377873


ISBN 10:   0195377877
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   10 September 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1: Reading Acts The Project The Premises Acts and the Ancient World Acts and the Reader Acts and Interpretation Acts and Modern Vocabulary The Hope 2: Collision: Explicating Divine Identity Acts 14: Paul and Barnabas--Hermes and Zeus Acts 17: Athensat Philippi Acts 19: Ephesus Conclusion 3: Dikaios: Rejecting Statecraft Roman Officials Gallio Claudius Lysias Felix Festus and Herod Agrippa II Conclusion

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A brilliant piece of work by a young scholar of considerable promise. --First Things I am very impressed by both the exegetical and hermeneutical work in this volume. Daniel Doleys C.Kavin Rowe has made an important contribution to Lukan studies. -- Joseph D. Fantin, Dallas Theological Seminary Kavin Rowe...thinks theologicaally and is at home with theological method. --Richard I. Pervo, St. Paul [T]his volume contends that Acts was intended as a culture-forming narrative that aimed at constructing an alternative way of life that ran counter to the life-patterns of the Greco-Roman world. --New Testament Abstracts


A brilliant piece of work by a young scholar of considerable promise. --First Things I am very impressed by both the exegetical and hermeneutical work in this volume. Daniel Doleys C.Kavin Rowe has made an important contribution to Lukan studies. -- Joseph D. Fantin, Dallas Theological Seminary Kavin Rowe...thinks theologicaally and is at home with theological method. --Richard I. Pervo, St. Paul [T]his volume contends that Acts was intended as a culture-forming narrative that aimed at constructing an alternative way of life that ran counter to the life-patterns of the Greco-Roman world. --New Testament Abstracts


<br> A brilliant piece of work by a young scholar of considerable promise. <br>--First Things<br>


a remarkable blend of biblical and historical scholarship, theological erudition and ethical reflection. Grant Macaskill, Journal for the Study of the New Testament


<br> A brilliant piece of work by a young scholar of considerable promise. <br>--First Things<p><br>


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