The Past as Legacy: Luke-Acts and Ancient Epic
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The Past as Legacy: Luke-Acts and Ancient Epic   -     By: Marianne Palmer Bonz

The Past as Legacy: Luke-Acts and Ancient Epic

Fortress Press / 2000 / Paperback

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This study addresses the genre and interpretation of Luke-Acts in the light of tis contemporary social, literary, and ideological milieu, particularly as these elements are reflected in the Latin epics contemporary with Luke-Acts and in their famous Augustan prototype, Virgil's Aeneid. Literary evidence indicating that Virgil's works had been translated into Greek prose by the middle of the first century makes this line of inquiry especially promising. Interpreting Luke-Acts as a prose adaptation of heroic or historical epic provides a hermeneutical model that is both universal in its theological message and essentially popular in its narrative presentation.

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Title: The Past as Legacy: Luke-Acts and Ancient Epic
By: Marianne Palmer Bonz
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 192
Vendor: Fortress Press
Publication Date: 2000
Dimensions: 9 X 6 (inches)
Weight: 12 ounces
ISBN: 0800632257
ISBN-13: 9780800632250
Stock No: WW632257

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This study addresses the genre and interpretation of Luke through Acts in the light of its contemporary social, literary, and ideological milieu, particularly as these elements are reflected in the Latin epics contemporary with Luke-Acts and in their famous Augustan prototype, Virgil's Aeneid. Literary evidence indicating that Virgil's works had been translated into Greek prose by the middle of the first century makes this line of inquiry especially promising. Interpreting Luke-Acts as a prose adaptation of heroic or historical epic provides a hermeneutical model that is both universal in its theological message and essentially popular in its narrative presentation.

Beginning with the question of literary occasion, Bonz introduces the particular configuration of historical circumstances that produced the great foundational epics of Gilgamesh, the Iliad and Odyssey, as well as the Aeneid, and suggests that the historical situation for the composition of Luke-Acts was closely analogous in key respects, for example: literary structure, epic journey, divine mission, prophecy, and reversal of destiny.

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Marianne Palmer Bonz is the managing editor of Harvard Theological Review and holds a doctorate in New Testament from Harvard Divinity School.

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