The New Testament in Its Literary EnvironmentA study of the relationship between the New Testament writings and other literature of late antiquity. This comprehensive introduction identifies and describes the major literary genres and forms found in the New Testament and Early Christian non-canonical literature. Comparing them with those prevalent in Judaism and Hellenism, it sheds light on the conventions that the New Testament writers chose to follow. |
Contents
Foreword by Wayne A Meeks | 9 |
The Gospels as Ancient Biography | 46 |
LukeActs and Ancient Historiography | 77 |
46 | 99 |
The Generic Features of LukeActs | 116 |
Letters in the Ancient World | 158 |
Early Christian Letters and Homilies | 183 |
The Apocalypse of John | 226 |
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