DOING THINGS WITH WORDS IN THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CENTURY
F. GERALD DOWNING
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First published as JSNTS 200 by Sheffield Academic Press
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Words as Deeds and Deeds as Words
Word-Processing in the Ancient World: The Social Production and Performance of Q
Markan Intercalation in Cultural Context
Compositional Conventions and the Synoptic Problem
A Paradigm Perplex: Luke, Matthew and Mark
Theophilus’s First Hearing of Luke—acts
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Seven of these pieces have appeared in other publications, mostly in the last decade; one will appear elsewhere around the same time as this volume appears. Three chapters, drafted in the last eighteen months, appear here for the first time. I wish to express my thanks to Editors and Presses for permission to reprint the following.
‘A bas les aristos: The Relevance of Higher Literature for the Understanding of the Earliest Christian Writings’, NovT 30.3 (1988), pp. 212–30.
‘Words as Deeds and Deeds as Words’, BibInt 3.2 (1995), pp. 129–43.
‘Word-processing in the First Century: The Social Production and Performance of Q’, JSNT 64 (1996), pp. 29–48.
‘A Genre for Q and a Socio-cultural Context for Q: Comparing Sets of Similarities with Sets of Differences’, JSNT 55 (1994), pp. 3–26.
‘Markan Intercalations in Cultural Context’, in G. Brooke (ed.), Narrativity and the Bible (Leuven: Peeters, forthcoming).
‘Compositional Conventions and the Synoptic Problem’, JBL 107.1 (1988), pp. 69–85.
‘A Paradigm Perplex: Luke, Matthew and Mark’, NTS 38 (1992), pp. 15–36.
‘Theophilus’ First Reading of Luke-Acts’, in C.M. Tuckett (ed.), Luke’s Literary Achievement (JSNTSup. 116; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), pp. 91–109.
Most of these studies have been shared early on in their time with the Ehrhardt Biblical Seminar in the Department of Religions and Theology in the University of Manchester, the kindness and ...
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About Doing Things with Words in the First Christian CenturyAlthough its religious heritage was that of a variegated Judaism, the tiny early Christian movement was nevertheless much more complexly and richly linked with the Graeco-Roman world in which it came to birth than is usually allowed for. In particular, ‘ordinary’ people were capable of a sophisticated use of words that can be detected also in the New Testament writings. But the use of words in Graeco-Roman times was often very different from what we suppose, and this collection of studies attempts to identify some of the anachronisms that still pervade even the best of modern scholarship. Francis Gerald Downing is an Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Religions and Theology, University of Manchester. |
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