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Subject(s)

• Church history—Historiography [Browse]
• Church history—Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600—Historiography [Browse]
• Bible Gospels—Historiography [Browse]

Series

• Anchor Yale Bible reference library [More in this series]
• The Anchor Yale Bible reference library

Summary note

When the gospel writings were first produced, Christian thinking was already cognizant of its relationship to ancient memorial cultures and history-writing traditions. Yet, little has been written about exactly what shaped the development of early Christian literary memory. In this eye-opening new study, Eve-Marie Becker explores the diverse ways in which history was written according to the Hellenistic literary traditions, focusing specifically on the time during which the New Testament writings came into being: from the mid-first century until the early second century CE. While acknowledging cases of historical awareness in other New Testament writings, Becker traces the origins of this historiographical approach to the Gospel of Mark and Luke-Acts. Offering a bold new framework, Becker shows how the earliest Christian writings shaped "Christian" thinking and writing about history.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-242) and indexes.

Contents

• Preface
• Transforming memory into literary narratives about the past
• Shaping history in the 1st and 2nd centuries CE in its literary culture
• Conceptualizing time in historiography
• Epilogue.

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ISBN

• 9780300165098 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
• 0300165099 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))

LCCN

2016961494

OCLC

1003206669

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