Die Areopagrede des Paulus und Reden bei Josephus
Eine vergleichende Studie zu Apg 17 und dem historiographischen Werk des Josephus
by Vitor Hugo Schell
English summary: According to Vitor Hugo Schell, the Book of Acts is a historical work of art. In this volume, his comparative analysis of Paul’s Areopagus sermon in Acts 17 and Hellenistic-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus’ written observations lead to the discovery of new facets of the Luke-Acts author’s literary strategies. The Areopagus speech is juxtaposed to the Bellum and Antiquities speeches, the two longest Josephus representations and the only surviving examples of a limited “subgenus” within early Jewish historiography. Fundamental questions posed by this study are how Josephus’ writings facilitate a better understanding of both Paul’s Areopagus speech and the Acts’ author, and how Josephus is perceived as an ancient historian. The comparison of formal and thematic characteristics makes a specific contribution to interpreting the apostle’s famous address to the Athenians and the entire Lucan work. German description: Vitor Hugo Schell betrachtet die Apostelgeschichte als historisches Kunstwerk und versucht, durch die Analyse der Areopagrede im 17. Kapitel, neue Facetten der literarischen Strategien ihres Verfassers zu entdecken. Durch einen Vergleich mit Josephus gewinnt er eine neue Perspektive der wissenschaftlichen Betrachtung der Apg und der Areopagrede. Die Areopagrede wird den Reden aus Bellum und Antiquitates, den zwei langsten Darstellungen des Josephus und den einzigen erhaltenen Beispielen einer begrenzten “Untergattung” innerhalb der fruhjudischen Historiographie, gegenubergestellt. Dabei lautet eine der grundlegenden Fragen des Autors: Wie tragen die Reden bei Josephus zum besseren Verstandnis der Areopagrede aber auch zum Verstandnis des Verfassers der Apg, sowie des Josephus als antikem Geschichtsschreiber bei? Vitor Hugo Schells Vergleich von formalen und thematischen Merkmalen der Areopagrede mit entsprechenden Merkmalen bei Josephus leistet einen spezifischen Beitrag fur die Interpretation dieser Rede und des gesamten lukanischen Werkes.
- By (author) Vitor Hugo Schell
Other Titles in this Series
What was Mark for Matthew?
An Examination of Matthew's Relationship and Attitude to his Primary Source
Volume 344
Christ as the Telos of Life
Moral Philosophy, Athletic Imagery, and the Aim of Philippians
Volume 371
Allegory Transformed
The Appropriation of Philonic Hermeneutics in the Letter to the Hebrews
Volume 269
Makrothymia im Neuen Testament
Semantik und Ethik einer vergessenen ethischen Norm. Kontexte und Normen neutestamentlicher Ethik / Contexts and Norms of New Testament Ethics. Band XV
Sunde als Zielverfehlung bei Paulus
Eine Studie zum stoisch-sokratischen Kolorit paulinischer Hamartiologie
Volume 614
The Memory of Ignatius of Antioch
The Martyr as a Locus of Christian Identity, Remembering and Remembered
Volume 581
John 4:1-42 among the Biblical Well Encounters
Pentateuchal and Johannine Narrative Reconsidered
Volume 542
Redescribing Jesus’ Divinity Through a Social Science Theory
An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Forgiveness and Divine Identity in Ancient Judaism and Mark 2:1-12
Volume 438
The Cosmic Drama of Salvation
A Study of Paul's Undisputed Writings from Anthropological and Cosmological Perspectives
Volume 276
Christosis
Pauline Soteriology in Light of Deification in Irenaeus and Cyril of Alexandria
Volume 314
Christian Identity in Corinth
A Comparative Study of 2 Corinthians, Epictetus, and Valerius Maximus
Volume 243
Proclaiming the Kerygma in Athens
The Argument of Acts 17:16-34 in Light of the Epicurean and Stoic Debates about Piety and Divine Images in Early Post-Hellenistic Times
Volume 596
The Lord of the Gospel of John
Narrative Theory, Textual Criticism, and the Semantics of Kyrios
Volume 478
Similar Books
Apocrypha, Magic, Liturgy
The Multiple Identities of Coptic Prayers in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt
Athanasius of Alexandria, Epistula ad episcopos Aegypti et Libyae
Old Slavonic Version and English Translation
Volume 261
Contesting Labeled Identities
The Sociology of Gentilics in Biblical and Northwest Semitic Literature
Cyril of Alexandria’s Christological Exegesis
Explorations of Partitive Exegesis in the Dialogues on the Trinity
Volume 70
Epiphanies of the Divine in the Septuagint and the New Testament
Fifth International Symposium of the Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti (CJHNT), 14-17 May 2015, Nottingham
Extracanonical Traditions and the Holy Land
Texts, Rituals, and Material Culture in Late Antique Palestine
From Joseph to Jesus
The Joseph Narrative as a Compositional Template from Old Greek Esther to the Gospel of Luke
Volume 125
Nicholas of Lyra’s Commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew and Luke
Franciscan Exegesis in a Time of Crisis
Paradise Lost in Transmission
The Return to Eden in the Apocalypse of Peter within Its Ethiopic and Early Christian Contexts
Punning in Odd or Elegant Constructions in Jeremiah
The Convergence of Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Textuality in the Hebrew Text of Jeremiah
