Characters and Characterization in Luke-Acts

By: Frank Dicken (Editor), Julia Snyder (Editor), Chris Keith (Editor)

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Hardcover | 20 October 2016 | Edition Number 1

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Like all skilful authors, the composer of the biblical books of Luke and Acts understood that a good story requires more than a gripping plot - a persuasive narrative also needs well-portrayed, plot-enhancing characters. This book brings together a set of new essays examining characters and characterization in those books from a variety of methodological perspectives.

The essays illustrate how narratological, sociolinguistic, reader-response, feminist, redaction, reception historical, and comparative literature approaches can be fruitfully applied to the question of Luke's techniques of characterization. Theoretical and methodological discussions are complemented with case studies of specific Lukan characters. Together, the essays reflect the understanding that while many of the literary techniques involved in characterization attest a certain universality, each writer also brings his or her own unique perspective and talent to the portrayal and use of characters, with the result that analysis of a writer's characters and style of characterization can enhance appreciation of that writer's work.

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"...the contents of each essay in this volume are of a high caliber and worthy of consideration... The diversity of methodological approaches, perspectives, and literary insights make this volume a helpful and valuable contribution to scholarship on Luke-Acts." - Biblical Theology Bulletin

"This collection of essays is in the third volume in a series of literary-critical studies on characters and characterization in the NT...Luke-Acts is of particular interest in this quest because of its sheer length and because it contains some of the most famous and memorable characters in the NT." - The Catholic Biblical Quarterly

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