HUMA 3422 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Electronic Paper, Pharisees, God-Fearer

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 3422
• Professor: Philip Harland

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Lecture 5: diaspora or colonial experience in platonic philosophical terms -- Do not give the professor an electronic paper of your assignment unless he asks you to. The author of luke-acts seems to say that he was not there (in his preface) Genos = a people related by birth. *luke-acts is best described as ancient historiography with novelistic features* Evidences of ancient historiography (josephus did this as well): Speeches -> they were constructed to fit a particular situation. Encomium = a type of speech that involves praise and blaming language. The types of things you expect in the preface. They talk about the sources being used, and that other people have written about the topic discussed. They imply that they are going to write a better account than the previous accounts. There is sometimes a literary patron is also an example of ancient historiography. Was a judean from a priestly family in jerusalem. Was a general in the roman-judean war.