Dr. Craig Keener, Acts, Lecture 2, Genre and Historiography

Biblical eLearning (biblicalelearn...) presents (audio is also available on Spotify open.spotify.c... Dr. Craig Keener on Acts
This is the second of 23 lectures Dr. Craig Keener of Asbury Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky has done on the book of Acts.
Be sure to check out his 4 volume analysis of Acts published by Baker Book House. The audio, full text in English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and others are freely available at biblicalelearn....
Timed Outline:
00:20 Genre: Novel (Pervo); but…
5:20 Different genres
7:35 Adventures as in novels?
13:05 Epic
15:20 Talbert: Biography
16:15 Biography as usually done
16:45 Biography as usually done
20:15 Eduard Meyer
21:00 What kind of history?
25:50 Form: monograph
27:20 Apologetic ethnographic history
30:05 Rhetorical sophistication in some
32:20 Rhetoric in History
35:50 Biases/Tendenz of Ancient Historians
39:50 Theological perspectives
41:15 Accuracy? Varied by historian
43:30 Objectivity the goal, chronology not always available, use of sources
46:50 My observation
47:25 2 Dangers
48:40 Novels and history were distinct genres in antiquity
52:00 Critical historiography
52:50 Even Josephus
53:40 Most importantly
54:20 Is Acts entertaining? Yes
54:40 Testing Luke's own case
54:55 Preface
55:40 Luke 1.1-4 tells us much about sources available to Luke
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Timed Outline:
00:20 Genre: Novel (Pervo); but…
5:20 Different genres
7:35 Adventures as in novels?
13:05 Epic
15:20 Talbert: Biography
16:15 Biography as usually done
16:45 Biography as usually done
20:15 Eduard Meyer
21:00 What kind of history?
25:50 Form: monograph
27:20 Apologetic ethnographic history
30:05 Rhetorical sophistication in some
32:20 Rhetoric in History
35:50 Biases/Tendenz of Ancient Historians
39:50 Theological perspectives
41:15 Accuracy? Varied by historian
43:30 Objectivity the goal, chronology not always available, use of sources
46:50 My observation
47:25 2 Dangers
48:40 Novels and history were distinct genres in antiquity
52:00 Critical historiography
52:50 Even Josephus
53:40 Most importantly
54:20 Is Acts entertaining? Yes
54:40 Testing Luke's own case
54:55 Preface
55:40 Luke 1.1-4 tells us much about sources available to Luke

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I'm so excited to watch this. Do you also have link for the PowerPoint?

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@@geraldpchuagmail Don't have them.

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Love it