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Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Contributors 12 1. Reading Acts in the second century: reflections on method, history, and desire 14 2. Jerusalem destroyed: the setting of Acts 30 3. Acts and the apostles: issues of leadership in the second century 58 4. Spec(tac)ular sights: mirroring in/of Acts 72 5. Acts of ascension: history, exaltation, and ideological legitimation 92 6. Time and space travel in Luke-Acts 114 7. The complexity of pairing: reading Acts 16 with Plutarch's Parallel Lives 136 8. Constructing Paul as a Christian in the Acts of the Apostles 154 9. Bold speech, opposition, and philosophical imagery in Acts 166 10. Among the apologists? Reading Acts with Justin Martyr 182 11. The Second Sophistic and the cultural idealization of Paul in Acts 200 12. Reading Luke-Acts in second-century Alexandria: from Clement to the Shadow of Apollos 222 Bibliography 238 Index of primary sources 264 Index of authors 280 Subject index 286 Reading Acts in the Second Century

Author

Ruben R. Dupertuis, Todd Penner

Published

2019

Language

EN