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"Luke-Acts and 'tragic history'" Table Of Contents:

• 1- Introduction
• 2- The Genre issue of Luke-acts and previous scholarship about 'tragic history' --
• 3- The Genre of Luke-acts : biography, novel, epic or history? --
• 4- Incomplete understanding -- or misunderstanding of 'Tragic history' --
• 5- An introduction to 'tragic history' --
• 6- What ls 'Tragic history' about? --
• 7- The origin of tragic history --
• 8- Concluding remarks --
• 9- 'tragic history' in Greco-Roman historiographical tradition --
• 10- Tragic style in herodotus's histories --
• 11- The Atys/Adrastus episode --
• 12- The Gyges/Candaules episode : choice between two necessities as a tragic motif --
• 13- Croesus, a paradigmatic tragic figure : his late-learning (...) as a tragic motif --
• 14- The defeat of Xerxes and the persian Armies by the Greeks --
• 15- Tragic style in Thucydides' history of the peloponnesian war --
• 16- Thucydides' tragic perspective on a reversal of fortune --
• 17- A mini-tragedy of Cleon and Athens at Amphipolis in Chalcidice --
• 18- A tragic downfall of Athens in Sicily (Books 6-7) --
• 19- A tragic sensitivity of Thucydides : an emphasis on Pathos --
• 20- Duris of Samos and Phylarchus of Athens --
• 21- Duris of Samos --
• 22- Phylarchus of Athens --
• 23- Tragic style in Polybius's histories --
• 24- Polybius's comparison of history with tragedy : Is Polybius arguing : that his historiography is a 'Truly' tragic history? --
• 25- Tragic reversal of Hasdrubal 's fortune --
• 26- Vivid and emotional presentation --
• 27- Concluding remarks --
• 28- Tragic style in Dionysius of Halicamassus's Roman antiquities --
• 29- Tragic Combat between the Kinsmen, the Horatii and the Curiatii (Roman Antiquities 3.1-22) --
• 30- Tragic sequel : Horatius's murder of his own sister --
• 31- Tragic elements in Dionysius's Coriolanus episode --
• 32- Tragic style in Plutarch's Parallel lives --
• 33- Reconsideration of the concept of Literary Genre in the Ancient world : is biography a Genre sharply distinct from historiography? --
• 34- The life of Alexander --
• 35- The life of Demetrius --
• 36- The lives of Pyrrhus and Marius --
• 37- The life of Crassus and Euripides' Bacchae --
• 38- Excursus : clothes as symbols of fortunes and Hubris in Plutarch --
• 39- Concluding remarks --
• 40- Tragic style in Livy's Ab urbe condita --
• 41- The tragedy of the Sabine women (Ab urbe condita 1.9-13) --
• 42- Tragic Dilemma in the story of Horatius (Ab urbe condita 1.24-26) --
• 43- A tragic Dilemma in the episode of Titus Manlius (Ab urbe condita 8.7) --
• 44- Livy's Portrayal of Hannibal as a tragic hero (Hannibal's ...) --
• 45- Vivid representation of scenes : ... --
• 46- Another literary device of Livy for ... of the readers --
• 47- Concluding remarks --
• 48- 'Tragic history' in Jewish-Hellenistic historiography : Flavius Josephus --
• 49- Josephus's tragic style in Bellum Judaicum --
• 50- The Siege of Jerusalem and its temple --
• 51- The Cannibalism of Mary and the destruction of the temple --
• 52- The group suicide at Masada --
• 53- Josephus's tragic style in Antiquitates --
• 54- Sarra and Pharaoh --
• 55- Noah's Floodand the tower of Babel (Ant. 1.72-119) --
• 56- King Amaziah as a tragic figure (Ant. 9.186-204) --
• 57- Haman as a tragic Figure (Ant. 11.273-283) --
• 58- Heightening of dramatic suspense --
• 59- Graphic and Vivid description of the Korah Rebellion --
• 60- Concluding remarks --
• 61- 'tragic history' in Luke-acts --
• 62- Tragic language and Allusion to Greek tragedy in Luke-acts --
• 63- The phrase "to kick against the Goad (...) " in acts 26:14 --
• 64- The term ... in acts 5:39 --
• 65- The prison-escape scenes in acts 12 and 16 --
• 66- The popularity of Euripides' Bacchae in the Hellenistic period --
• 67- Concluding remarks --
• 68- Tragic disasters in Luke-acts caused by 'Greed for more or what is not one's own (...)' --
• 69- Luke 's special concern with possessions --
• 70- The tragedy of Judas Iscariot (acts 1:15-20) --
• 71- The tragedy of Ananias and Sapphira (acts 5:1-11) --
• 72- Reversal of fortune of the Rieh man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31) --
• 73- Concluding remarks --
• 74- Luke's tragic style in the portrait of king Herod (acts 12) --
• 75- Reminder of parallels in Greco-Roman historiography --
• 76- Josephus's portrait of Herod Agrippa I in antiquities (19.343-352) --
• 77- Luke's portrait of Herod Agrippal in acts 12 --
• 78- Tragic style in Paul's journey to Jerusalem (acts 20:1-21:16) --
• 79- Exceptional Appeal to Emotions as a Trace of the Tragic Style in Acts --
• 80- Dilemma between Two Conflicting Causes : human cause vs. divine cause? --
• 81- The tragedy of Israel in Luke-acts --
• 82- Luke's tragic vision of Israel recognized in speeches by Peter and Paul in acts --
• 83- Luke's Jerusalem Narrative as a tragedy of Israel (Luke 19:28-24:53) --
• 84- The tragedy of Israel repeated in their rejection of the Apostles? --
• 85- Concluding remarks --
• 86- Conclusion : reconsideration of the literary Genre of Luke-acts ---- Bibliography-- Index of sources-- Index of modern authors-- Subject index.

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