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1. A Map of Understanding: The Riskiness of Trust in the World of the Early Christians.

Author

Alexander, Loveday

Subjects
*PRIMITIVE & early church, ca. 30-600, *BELIEF & doubt, *COMMUNICATION, *ROMANS
Abstract

Faith is an important concept in early Christianity. But what did the word pistis (and its Latin equivalent fides) mean in the everyday language of Greeks and Romans? In her important study, Teresa Morgan rightly insists that we need to pay as much attention to the way words worked in the mentalité of the wider social world with which Christians were seeking to communicate as we do to the ways they are used in the New Testament. This article seeks to summarize Morgan’s understanding of pistis in the classical world and its impact on NT texts, focusing on the two major themes of pistis as relationship (believing/trusting in) and pistis as propositional belief (believing that). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2018
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2. Luke’s Political Vision.

Author

Alexander, Loveday

Subjects
*POLITICAL theology
Abstract

In order to understand Luke’s political vision, we have first to understand the complex political situation in which Acts is written. This becomes clear in the trial of Paul, where Paul stands before a Roman tribunal but addresses a dispute arising within the Jewish community. Despite his protestations of innocence under Roman law, Paul’s response embodies an inclusive political vision that is profoundly subversive of the imperial order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2012
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3. God's Frozen Word: Canonicity and the Dilemmas of Biblical Studies Today.

Author

Alexander, Loveday

Subjects
*BIBLICAL studies, *THEOLOGICAL education, *CHRISTIAN education, *CHRISTIANS, *PHILOLOGY
Abstract

Focuses on the canonicity and the dilemmas of studying the texts of the Bible by Christians. Discussion on the need to rediscover the ability to read the canonic texts of the Bible in a creative way as a framework for engaging with questions of God and morality; Overview of the dilemmas of Biblical studies facing Christians; Cultural context of Biblical studies; Effect of the contextual separation between philology and performance on the study of the Bible.

Published
2006
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4. Mapping Early Christianity.

Author

Alexander, Loveday

Subjects
*CHURCH history, *HISTORY -- Religious aspects, *GEOGRAPHICAL perception
Abstract

Explores the works of the evangelist Luke about the history of the church, in an attempt to understand some of the patterns and conceptual structures implicit in his works. Motive for constructing mental maps; Factors to consider in analyzing Luke's narrative geography; Content of the mental map of patristic church historian Eusebius.

Published
2003
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5. WHAT IF LUKE HAD NEVER MET THEOPHILUS?

Author

Alexander, Loveday C.A.

Subjects
*CRITICISM
Abstract

Asking the 'what if ?' questions of virtual history is a way of rubbing our noses in history's essential contingency—in the fact that things could have been different, that human choices (among other contingencies) actually matter. And of all history's contingencies, those of authorship seem—at least to those of us who are authors—the most precarious imaginable. With Luke we are dealing with an author who seems particularly sensitive to the delicate combinations of forces, both communal and individual, that hedge about the articulation of the word. Asking 'What if Luke had never met Theophilus?' is in the end an invitation to consider the possibility of the non-existence of Luke's Gospel and Acts. Can we imagine the New Testament without these two texts (which together make up 25% of its bulk)? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2000
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6. Fact, fiction and the genre of Acts.

Author

Alexander, Loveday

Subjects
*ANCIENT literature
Abstract

Examines boundaries of fact and fiction in ancient literature in the book of Acts. Creation of the concept of `fiction' in Greek literature; Indication the Greek and Roman historians were considered liars; Analysis of the book of Acts as fact or fiction.

Published
1998
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8. Ancient Fiction: The Matrix of Early Christian and Jewish Narrative.

Author

Alexander, Loveday

Subjects
*RELIGIOUS fiction, *NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews the book "Ancient Fiction: The Matrix of Early Christian and Jewish Narrative," Society of Biblical Literature Symposium Series 32, edited by Jo-Ann Brant, Charles W. Hedrick, and Chris Shea.

Published
2007

10. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles/The Acts of the Apostles (Book).

Author

Alexander, Loveday

Subjects
CRITICAL & Exegetical Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles 1: Preliminary Introduction & Commentary on Acts I-XIV, A (Book), ACTS of the Apostles, The (Book), BARRETT, C. K., WITHERINGTON, Ben, 1951-
Abstract

Reviews the books 'A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles,' by C.K. Barrett and 'The Acts of the Apostles: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary,' by Ben Witherington III.

Published
2001

11. Theios Anthropos (Book Review).

Author

Alexander, Loveday

Subjects
THEIOS Anthropos (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Theios Anthropos. Zur Verwendung von...und sinnverwandten Ausdrucken in der Literatur der Kaiserzeit,' by David S. Du Toit.

Published
2000

14. Reviews.

Author

Alexander, Loveday

Subjects
PSEUDO-Philo (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Pseudo-Philo und Lukas. Studien zum Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum und seiner Bedeutung fur die Interpretation des lukanischen Doppelwerks,' by Eckart Reinmuth.

Published
1995
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15. Reviews.

Author

Alexander, Loveday

Subjects
*CHRISTOLOGY, HISTORY of doctrines
Abstract

Reviews the book `Jesus und die Zollner. Historische und neutestamentlich exegetische Untersuchungen,' by Fritz Herrenbuck.

Published
1993
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25. Reviews.

Author

Alexander, Loveday

Subjects
WOMEN in the Acts of the Apostles (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Women in the Acts of the Apostles. A Feminist Liberation Perspective,' by Ivoni Richter Reimer, translated by Linda M. Maloney.

Published
1998
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26. Reviews.

Author

Alexander, Loveday

Subjects
INTRODUCTION to Luke-Acts, The (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `The Introduction to Luke-Acts. A Study of the Role of Lk I, 1-4, 44 in the Composition of Luke's Two-Volume Work,' by Fearghus o Fearghail.

Published
1993
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30. Lukasstudien.

Author

Alexander, Loveday

Subjects
*THEOLOGY, *NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews the book "Lukasstudien," by Hans Klein.

Published
2006
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31. Eine Frau namens Lydia.

Author

Alexander, Loveday

Subjects
*NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book "Eine Frau namens Lydia," by Jean-Pierre Sterck-Degueldre.

Published
2005

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