Literary Patterns Theological Themes And The Genre Of Luke Acts
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The New Testament in Its Literary Environment
| Author | : David Edward Aune |
| Publisher | : James Clarke & Co. |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780227679104 |
A study of the relationship between the New Testament writings and other literature of late antiquity. This comprehensive introduction identifies and describes the major literary genres and forms found in the New Testament and Early Christian non-canonical literature. Comparing them with those prevalent in Judaism and Hellenism, it sheds light on the conventions that the New Testament writers chose to follow.
Narrative Asides in Luke-Acts
| Author | : Steven Sheeley |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2015-01-29 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1474236197 |
An examination of the literary device of narrative asides, including parenthetical remarks addressed directly to the reader which interrupt the logical progression of the story and establish a relationship between the narrator and the narratee. Narrative asides in Luke-Acts are located, categorized according to their function, and examined within their literary context. With this discussion in mind, the book offers a narrative-critical exploration of the relationship of asides to the plot, narrator, and audience of Luke-Acts.
Lukan Theology in the Light of the Gospel's Literary Structure
| Author | : Douglas S. McComiskey |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 423 |
| Release | : 2007-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1597527866 |
Numerous scholars have noted various elements of literary structure in the Gospel of Luke, many of them patterned, such as chiasm. Several of these scholars have rigorously explored the significance of such structure. A common conclusion is that if Luke is consistent with other ancient writers, then the observation of some elements of patterned structure, e.g., what has already been discovered in the Gospel, suggests that there is probably considerably more. This book offers a comprehensive literary structure for the Gospel of Luke, thoroughly and critically evaluates it, and ultimately focuses on theology that may be derived from this structure. As groundwork, the Introduction provides rigorous tests for assessing the intentionality behind proposals of parallelism. The first chapter then employs the tests in an evaluation of Robert C. Tannehill's work on Luke-Acts, which is representative of studies on correspondences that are not strictly structural in nature. His contribution enables us to grasp how Luke encourages the reader to read passages in the light of other passages within the Gospel and, accordingly, provides an interpretive aid for our study. The second chapter applies the tests to the Lukan correspondences suggested by Charles H. Talbert, which are inherently structural. His analysis of Luke-Acts and other Greco-Roman literature provides a strong theoretical foundation for our own proposal. Chapter three surveys OT, Greco-Roman, and NT texts that bear a similar patterned structure to what we discover in Luke. The structure of Luke is presented and carefully evaluated in chapter four, and the theological implications of that structure are developed in chapter five, shedding much fresh light on Lukan theology.
The Literary-Linguistic Analysis of the Bible
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 506 |
| Release | : 2024-09-12 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004698965 |
This collection of essays explores the rich intellectual heritage of Russian Formalism and the Prague School of Linguistics to illuminate their influence on the field of biblical studies and apply their constructive and creative potential for advancing linguistic theory, discourse analysis, and literary interpretation of the texts of the Old and New Testaments in their original languages
Luke-Acts and the Rhetoric of History
| Author | : Clare K. Rothschild |
| Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Acts of Thomas |
| ISBN | : 9783161482038 |
Revised thesis (Ph.D.)- -University of Chicago, Chicago, 2003.
Paul the Reluctant Witness
| Author | : Blake Shipp |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2005-11-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1725242656 |
In this stimulating analysis, Shipp provides the reader with an introduction and critique of literary-rhetorical analysis as well as an in-depth treatment of the triple account of Paul's Damascus Road experience in Acts. "Luke used the repetition of the Damascus narrative as a literary device identifying Pauline disobedience and resistance and the transformation of these characteristics. With the first Damascus narrative, Luke provided the reader with a paradigmatic image of resistance transformed. . . . Luke used the Damascus narratives and these themes to bracket the Paulusbild, fashioning the trial narrative into an extended period of transformation of Pauline resistance. Beginning in 19:21, Paul resisted the leading of the Holy Spirit and his appointed location of witness. He was an intentionally forceful actor resisting God. God bound this intentionally forceful actor in chains. In this opening scene of the Paulusbild Luke included the second Damascus narrative (21:33--22:24a). The themes emphasized in the narrative were those of Saul intentionally resisting gospel expansion and God's subsequent overcoming of Saul. Saul was physically restored through Ananias but not fully transformed. He is not yet an empowered and intentionally forceful witness. At the end of the Paulusbild, as Paul is headed to Rome, Luke included the final Damascus narrative (25:23--26:32). Paul was headed to Rome, but not in the freedom intended by God. He remained in chains because of his own actions. Thus, his character was one of tension. The Damascus narrative that Luke included demonstrates Saul's intentionally forceful resistance to the gospel. However, the vacating of power and overcoming of Saul is suppressed, and the theme of the transformation of resistance to empowered witness is emphasized. Nonetheless, the character of Saul in the speech does not match the character of Paul in the narrative. Tension remains, but the projected direction of transformation is evident. Paul is headed to Rome. The 'vision of grace' has effected a transformation in Saul but not yet in Paul. If the trajectory of transformation continues, then Paul should once again be an intentionally forceful, empowered witness for the gospel when he arrives in Rome." --from Chapter 5
Peter and Cornelius
| Author | : vanThanh Nguyen SVD |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 203 |
| Release | : 2012-11-29 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1621895068 |
The mission to the Gentiles and their conversion into the church gave rise to conflict in the early Christian community. Acts 11:1-18 indicates that there was clearly dissension over the issue of Peter going to the house of Cornelius and participating in table fellowship with him. The issue was no small matter, since it could have split the church. How then does Luke portray the resolution of the conflict? Instead of writing a long theological treatise, the author employs the art of storytelling. The study of Luke-Acts has long been dominated by historical-critical methods, focusing on Luke as a historian and theologian. This work, however, proposes a paradigm shift by looking at Luke as a storyteller. Since narrative criticism is concerned with the work of the writer as author and not simply redactor, and since it treats narrative precisely as narrative, the time has come to apply the narrative-critical approach to Acts 10:1--11:18. This approach explores a different set of questions: What is the story of Peter and Cornelius about? How is the story told? What effect does the story have on the reader and why?
Proclamation from Prophecy and Pattern
| Author | : Darrell L. Bock |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 1997-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0567580946 |
Luke is here presented as contributing to New Testament Christology through his treatment of Old Testament Christological texts. This redaction-critical study argues that Luke's use of the Old Testament is not so much a 'proof from prophecy' as a 'proclamation' that draws both upon prophecies and upon patterns. This proclamation as it is developed in Luke-Acts serves to turn the reader's attention from seeing Jesus as Messiah to seeing him eventually as Lord.
Behold, Your House Is Left to You
| Author | : Peter H. Rice |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : 2016-10-07 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1498281915 |
This book explores the place of Jerusalem and its Temple in Luke's Gospel, paying attention both to the Third Gospel's narrative and theological dynamics and to the historical and rhetorical milieu in which Luke composed his narrative. It argues for a portrait of the Jerusalem Temple in Luke's Gospel that is complex, multifold, and coherent, one comprised of interwoven strands constituting an engaging and intertextual response to the pressing theological concerns of the Evangelist's day.
