Corpus-Paul

["Peter Kirby" <kirby AT earthlink.net>]

Hello,

I'm Peter.  I am a student at Fullerton College and author of this web site:

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/

If anyone has any comments on the web site - or, keeping with the theme of 
this
list, with the articles on the Pauline letters - then I welcome their 
feedback.
I am sure that there is plenty of room for improvement.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Black" <sblack AT axionet.com>
To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 7:35 PM
Subject: [corpus-paul] Re: The "We" sections in Acts.

> My original post was very interested in tracking down information on
> the suggestion that the "we" passages can be well explained as a
> literary convention, and do not imply eyewitness status at all. I am
> hoping someone has heard of this theory before and can point me in a
> helpful direction.

Vernon K. Robbins.  "By Land and By Sea: The We-Passages and Ancient Sea
Voyages." In Perspectives on Luke-Acts, 215-42. C. H. Talbert, ed. 
Perspectives
in Religious Studies, Special Studies Series, No. 5. Macon, Ga: Mercer Univ.
Press and Edinburgh: T.& T. Clark, 1978.

Robbins argues that the use of "we" is a stylistic device for seagoing
narratives.

best,
Peter Kirby