On Character Building: The Reader and the Rhetoric of Characterization in Luke-Acts - Softcover

Darr, John A.

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9781725283565: On Character Building: The Reader and the Rhetoric of Characterization in Luke-Acts
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ISBN 10: 1725283565 ISBN 13: 9781725283565
Publisher: Wipf and Stock, 2020

Synopsis

This guide to interpreting the characters in Luke-Acts, the longest and most complex of New Testament narratives, uses the latest literary-critical theory and biblical scholarship to construct an understanding of how the characters are formed and how they function in the Lukan writings. It is the author’s contention that the reader plays an important role in character building. The author illustrates this process using three representative characters or character groups: John the Baptist, the Pharisees, and Herod the Tetrarch.

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About the Author

John A. Darr has taught New Testament in the Theology Department at Boston College for more than three decades. He is widely recognized for designing and promoting pragmatic (audience-oriented) approaches to biblical narratives, and for pioneering studies of characterization in the gospels.

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Publisher
Wipf and Stock
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1725283565
ISBN 13 
9781725283565
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
208
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