Assumed Authorial Unity of Luke and Acts - A Reassessment of the Evidence

Informationen zum Autor Patricia Walters is an assistant professor and coordinator of the Religious Studies program at Rockford College! Illinois. Klappentext Reassesses the case for single authorship via an innovative statistical analysis that reveals significant stylistic differences between Luke and Acts. Zusammenfassung For nearly nineteen hundred years! few have questioned the single authorship of Luke and Acts. Applying a statistical analysis of both works that is unique to biblical scholarship! this study reveals significant stylistic differences between the two books! providing a reassessment of the evidence for unitary authorship. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Background and methodology; 2. Authorial data: seams and summaries; 3. Authorial criteria: Greek prose compositional conventions; 4. Authorial unity: analysis results and probabilities; 5. Final considerations and future directions.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Walters, Patricia (Rockford College Walters
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.02.2009
• EAN: 9780521509749
• ISBN: 978-0-521-50974-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Society for New Testament Stud; Society for New Testament Stud
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works