In this monograph, the author demonstrates that the Acts of the Apostles is a highly creative hypertextual reworking of the Letter to the Galatians, with over 500 strictly sequentially organized conceptual and linguistic correspondences between Acts and Galatians. This hypertextual dependence on Galatians explains numerous surprising features of Acts. Critical explanations of these features, which are offered in this monograph, ensure the reliability of the new solution to the problem of the relationship between Acts and the Pauline and post-Pauline letters.
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The main content of this book is a parallel text, in Greek, Latin and English, of The Acts of the Apostles. In making it available, I claim no excellence of scholarship. I downloaded the Greek and Latin texts some years ago from the Internet—so many years ago, indeed, that I no longer remember where from. I have read through each of them, and nothing obviously corrupt has leapt off the page. If, beyond that, I trust in their purity, it is solely because they were uploaded by people who believed they were transmitting the Revealed Word of God, and who therefore showed greater diligence in proofing than I ever have. You may notice that, while the Greek and English texts mostly correspond, the Latin is missing several verses, and there are a few variations of numbering the verses. The reason for this, I understand, is that there are two main lines of descent for the text of the New Testament. The translators of the Authorised Version used one of these lines. So, it appears, do I. St Jerome, who prepared his Latin translation in the fourth century, used the other. However, while these discrepancies have generated much heat between the various Christian sects, my current purpose is less to advance any religious view than to promote the learning of the classical languages.
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This article examines two aspects of the ubiquitous, but oft-overlooked, set of paratexts known as the Euthalian Apparatus. The Euthalian apparatus supplements Acts, the Pauline Epistles, and the Catholic Epistles in a variety of manuscripts, framing these works with prefaces, cross references, lists of various kinds, and biographic texts relating to Paul. To begin to understand this variable system as a work of late-ancient textual scholarship, transmitted in hundreds of medieval manuscripts, I examine the two quotation lists provided for Acts, focusing on their various presentations in the manuscripts, using GA 1162 as an example. Examining these lists enables us to better understand the reception of Acts’ use of Jewish scripture, Acts’ reception in late-ancient scholastic contexts, the transmission of quotations, and the complexity involved in defining the boundaries ofcanonical ideologies.
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This paper then details the efforts of scholars to trace that particular way of reading Scripture in Luke’s Acts of the Apostles by providing a review of literature mapping the scholarly research related to how Luke employed the OT. For the sake of completeness, the resulting bibliography will be also concerned about Luke’s use of non-biblical sources as well since intertextuality need not be solely restricted to biblical precursors. Scholars of Acts have stressed that Luke also wrote against larger cultural and (more importantly here) literary backgrounds. In other words, this project seeks to create a bibliographic narrative about significant studies that have a bearing on “intertextuality” and Acts. This paper is laid out in levels. The introductory chapter familiarizes readers with some general tools for the study of Acts and by familiarizing the readers with some recent commentaries that have some bearing on the conversation concerning intertextuality. The first chapter narrows the focus some by charting the history of interpretation of the Book of Acts from concerns of historicity and redaction to those of sociology and literary theory. This chapter seeks to establish the context in which Acts studies have taken place and to present the background out of which the study of intertextuality grows. Finally, chapter three introduces explicit studies on intertextuality in Acts, covering general tools, studies specific to the LXX, studies on parts of scripture that recur in Acts, and finally an brief introduction to a few scholars looking for non-biblical precursors. The last category includes scholars working with Classical sources and Second Temple Jewish sources. This approach engages in some redundancy as each level covers some of the same territory. But this approach allows the presentation of the quest for intertextuality in Acts to be placed in its larger context and in the context of the studies on which any modern student of Acts depends.
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Virtutes Apostolorum, a collection of Latin apocryphal texts about the deeds and the passions of the early Christian personages have their oldest prototypes in the Greek Apocryphal Acts from the 2nd and the 3rd centuries, but contain also other texts for which we do not possess Greek originals and might have been significantly younger. By all indications, the corpus existed in a collected form by the end of the 6th century and was clearly extant by the early 9th century to which the earliest manuscript evidence can be dated. This thesis focuses on one aspect of the collection, namely the usage of the references to Scripture, in order to provide more information about the first few centuries of the existence of the collection uncharted by the extant manuscripts
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This article assesses Jenny Read-Heimerdinger’s application of discourse analysis to the problem of the two textual traditions of the book of Acts. Based on an analysis of the textual variants of the Apostolic Decree and a consideration of Jewish perspective of both traditions, this article concludes, contrary to Read-Heimerdinger, that the Alexandrian tradition is more likely to represent the original text and contains a more Jewish-oriented perspective, which calls her application of discourse analysis into question and reaffirms the primacy of the Alexandrian text.
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A fresh reading of Acts shows how its structure and story reveal missional significance, inviting God’s people to be an instrument for the kingdom of God. This study investigates three related areas in: (1) constructing an appropriate literary method from within the vast field of literary criticism; (2) focusing on Acts as a whole literary work instead of narrower pericopes or the broader corpus of Luke-Acts; and (3) revealing theological significance from literary shape instead of imposing it on the narrative. The method is a focused narrative criticism joining structure elements (sections, sequence, and size) and story components (literary-spatial, literary-temporal, character, speech, and intertextual) to inform a narrative theology arising from the text. Three Graeco-Roman literary principles (from Horace and Aristotle) organise ancient and modern literary concepts. The study’s core central chapters investigate the literary shape of Acts’ Ending (21:15–28:31) as a finish and clo.
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That Nothing May Be Lost: Fragments and the New Testament Text: Papers from the Twelfth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament
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