Sight And Blindness As An Index Of Character In Luke Acts And Its Cultural Milieu

Download or read book Sight and Blindness as an Index of Character in Luke-Acts and Its Cultural Milieu written by Chad Hartsock and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the larger rubric of physiognomics, this dissertation will study one specific physical marker in particular---blindness. As we study the ancient sources, we actually find something of a literary topos for the blind character that begins to emerge. That is to say that whenever a character in ancient literature is described as "blind," a certain set of assumptions about the person's character would likely be made by the audience. Ultimately, this dissertation argues that blindness serves as an interpretive principle that is programmatic for Luke-Acts, and this dissertation seeks to bring that element of the narrative to the forefront.