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Spencer Miller, Althea.

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Orality and the narrative techniques of the Acts of the Apostles, the Homeric epics, Greco-Roman novels and Greco-Roman historiography: A comparative approach.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Orality and the narrative techniques of the Acts of the Apostles, the Homeric epics, Greco-Roman novels and Greco-Roman historiography: A comparative approach./
Author:	Spencer Miller, Althea.
Description:	376 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Dennis R. MacDonald.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-10A.
Subject:	Literature, Classical. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3285231
ISBN:	9780549274483

Orality and the narrative techniques of the Acts of the Apostles, the Homeric epics, Greco-Roman novels and Greco-Roman historiography: A comparative approach.
Spencer Miller, Althea.

Orality and the narrative techniques of the Acts of the Apostles, the Homeric epics, Greco-Roman novels and Greco-Roman historiography: A comparative approach. - 376 p.

Adviser: Dennis R. MacDonald.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Claremont Graduate University, 2008.

Following the agenda setting denunciations of the 19th century scholar Ferdinand Christian Baur the historicity and genre of Acts and auctorial competence were focal issues in actaforschung. Much attention was paid to factual details, genre and formal features, theology, and literary questions especially in their relationships to Greco-Roman historiography. While theology enabled an anachronistic post-Nicean approach to understanding the role and meaning of the Holy Spirit, angels, visions and auditions in Acts it could not contribute much to settling questions of historicity and genre.

ISBN: 9780549274483Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017779
Literature, Classical.

Orality and the narrative techniques of the Acts of the Apostles, the Homeric epics, Greco-Roman novels and Greco-Roman historiography: A comparative approach.
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520 $a The empirical approach was limited to factual issues. The Holy Spirit, angels, visions, and auditions are not susceptible to empirical verification. Their role and place in Acts as historiographical literature was suspect as the narrative techniques of characterization and emplottment differed from Greco-Roman historiography. Loveday Alexander, Dennis MacDonald, Marianne Palmer Bonz, and Richard Pervo compared aspects of Acts to the classical epic tradition and Greco-Roman novels. Their studies broke the focus on historiography and suggested that verifiable history is not the primary purpose. MacDonald introduced mimetic transvaluation as a technique employed in Acts. Transvaluation suggests a comparative valency functioning in which literary allusions advocate notions of mythic advances within the hypertextual community in contrast to the hypotextual community.
520 $a Transvaluation enables the analysis of Acts in socio-political and cultural terms. The inclusion of more comparable genres enlarges the investigative scope of the cultural resonance of various genres. Non-empirical elements are taken as portals to cultural resonance and are analyzed as mythic characters and events. Characterization techniques interpreted from the perspective of oral subjectivity rather than empirical subjectivity provide an alternative methodology for analyzing Acts as motivated by socio-political and cultural concerns. When so analyzed, Acts finds berth within the epic tradition also. It shares in the cultural resonance of the epics, participating in a transvaluative cross-cultural conversation within the Roman Empire. It is a double apologia: explaining Christianity to Rome and Rome to Christianity. Christianity is Empire wide in its reach, universal in its self-understanding and a worthy expression of the imperial ethos.
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