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By Charles Cleworth. Abstract. The growing trend of utilizing narrative criticism to interpret the New Testament, including the tools of character studies, has led to an increased focus upon the on the way Luke develops Peter’s character in the book of Acts.
12 lis 2021 · PDF | The Roman senator Marcellus plays a prominent role among the considerable number of characters mentioned in the apocryphal Acts of Peter .
At issue in this search is how those who interact with the Acts narrative, both ancient and modern readers, are affected by the presentation of characters of Peter and Paul. Keywords Acts, audience-oriented, historical criticism, identity, literary criticism, Paul, Peter.
12 lis 2021 · The Acts of Peter is a Christian entry in the second-century marketplace of competing religious claims. The surviving portions deal primarily with the conflict between the apostle Peter and Simon Magus in Rome and the apostle’s martyrdom.
The case will be established by examining the convention of writing speeches in ancient historiographical writings, isolating the common kerygmatic elements in the three speeches, and comparing the major verbal and thematic similarities in the Petrine speeches in Acts to the book of 1 Peter.
In this study, Dr. Benea Alukwe explores the principles at work in Peter’s leadership of the early church as it transformed from a frightened group of secret disciples into an indestructible force with world-changing potential.
1 cze 2013 · The purpose of this book is to seek a fuller understanding of how the characterisation of Paul in Acts would have been perceived by those who first read or heard the Lucan narrative.
