By Drew W. Billings

Acts of the Apostles is in general understood as a historic file of occasions of the early Church and serves because the organizing centerpiece of the hot testomony canon. during this e-book, Drew Billings demonstrates that Acts was once written in conformity with broader representational developments and criteria discovered on imperial monuments and within the epigraphic list of the early moment century. Bringing an interdisciplinary method of a textual content of serious significance, he compares the equipment of illustration in Acts with visible and verbal representations that have been universal in the course of the reign of the Roman Emperor Trajan. Billings argues that Acts adopts the rhetoric of Roman imperialism came across on imperial monuments and within the epigraphic list of the early moment century. His examine bridges the fields of classics, paintings historical past, gender reports, Jewish stories and New testomony reports in exploring how Early Christian texts relate to wider styles within the cultural creation of the Roman Empire.

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