Crabbe, Luke/Acts and the End of History

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Kylie Crabbe
Luke/Acts and the End of History

Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft, 238

De Gruyter | 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110615197

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Published: 18 Nov 2019
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OVERVIEW
Luke/Acts and the End of History investigates how understandings of history in diverse texts of the Graeco-Roman period illuminate Lukan eschatology. In addition to Luke/Acts, it considers ten comparison texts as detailed case studies throughout the monograph: Polybius's Histories, Diodorus Siculus's Library of History, Virgil's Aeneid, Valerius Maximus's Memorable Doings and Sayings, Tacitus’s Histories, 2 Maccabees, the Qumran War Scroll, Josephus's Jewish War, 4 Ezra, and 2 Baruch. ...

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