Luke/Acts and the End of History

by Kylie Crabbe

Luke/Acts and the End of History investigates how understandings of history in diverse texts of the Graeco-Roman period illuminate Lukan eschatology. In addition to Luke/Acts, it considers ten comparison texts as detailed case studies throughout the monograph: Polybius's Histories, Diodorus Siculus's Library of History, Virgil's Aeneid, Valerius Maximus's Memorable Doings and Sayings, Tacitus's Histories, 2 Maccabees, the Qumran War Scroll, Josephus's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110614553
• ISBN13: 9783110614558
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 435 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary