The lost letters of Pergamum: a story from the New Testament world.In The Lost Letters of Pergamum: a Story from the New Testament World (Baker Academic, $14.99) Bruce W. Longenecker writes an epistolary novel epistolary novel Novel in the form of a series of letters written by one or more characters. It allows the author to present the characters' thoughts without interference, convey events with dramatic immediacy, and present events from several points of view. narrating the last year of Antipas's life (name from Rev 2:13) to illustrate the social, economic, and religious climate and attitudes of first-century people. The correspondence is between Antipas, a non-Jewish native of Pergamum and Calpurnius of Ephesus and Luke, resident in Calpurnius' home. The correspondence tells how Antipas, in becoming a Christian, discovers that his life changes so radically that he finally is martyred. This is not great literature but is a useful didactic di·dac·tic adj. Of or relating to medical teaching by lectures or textbooks as distinguished from clinical demonstration with patients. devise, a relatively painless way to get readers to think like first-century Christians. Unlike Gerd Theissen Gerd Theissen (1943- ) is a German Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar. He is Professor of New Testament Theology at the University of Heidelberg. He received the Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies in 2002 from The British Academy[1], he is
Books reviewed in Currents can be ordered through the LSTC LSTC Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago LSTC Livermore Software Technology Corporation LSTC Large Sensor Test Chamber LSTC Laser Systems Test Center LSTC Let Subject to Contract (rentals) Book Center 1100 East 55th Street, Chicago, IL 60615 (773) 256-0753 |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion