Table of Contents
Introduction: Enigma in Two volumes 1
The 'Gospel Acts' of Luke: Hellenistic History as 'Biblical' Theology 1
The Luke-Acts Conundrum 1
Events, Fiction, and the Hermeneutics of Luke's Narrative Persuasion 3
Biblical Texts and Intertexts as Narrative 'Arranging' and Intratextual 'Sequencing' for Luke the Hellenistic Historian and 'Biblical' Theologian 7
Part I Luke's 'Gospel Acts' and the Genre of the Gospels 11
Chapter 1 How Luke Writes 13
Chapter 2 Re-Reading Talbert's Luke: The Bios of "Balance" or the "Bias" of History? 39
[Short Excursus: Richard Burridge's What are the Gospels?
A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography, Cambridge University Press, 1992] 64
Part II Luke's Prologues and Hellenistic Narrative Hermeneutics 67
Chapter 3 The Author 'Luke': "As One Who Has a Thoroughly Informed Familiarity with All the Events from the Top" (παρηκολουθηκοτι ανωθεν πασιν ακριβως, Luke 1:3a) 68
Chapter 4 The Meaning of ΚΑΘΕΞΗΣ in Luke's Two-Volume Narrative 108
Part III Luke among Hellenistic Historians 125
Chapter 5 'Listening Posts' Along the Way: 'Synchronisms' as Metaleptic Prompts to the 'Continuity of the Narrative' in Polybius's Histories and in Luke's 'Gospel Acts' 127
Chapter 6 'Managing' the Audience: Diodorus Siculus and Luke the Evangelist on Designing Authorial Intent 154
Chapter 7 A New Reading of Luke's 'Gospel Acts': Acts as the 'Metaleptic' Collapse of Luke and Dionysius of Halicarnassus's Narrative 'Arrangement' (οικονομια) as the Hermeneutical Keys to Luke's Re-Visioning of the "Many" 172
Part IV Luke's Theologia Cruets. The Suffering Servant(s) of the Lord: Moses, David, the Suffering Righteous, and Jesus and "All The Prophets" 201
Chapter 8 Luke 9:1-50: Luke's Preview of the Journey of the Prophet like Moses of Deuteronomy 205
Chapter 9 "The Christ Must Suffer": New Light On The Jesus - Peter, Stephen, Paul Parallels in Luke's'Gospel Acts' 238
Chapter 10 Luke's "Plan of God" from the Greek Psalter: The Rhetorical Thrust of 'The Prophets and the Psalms' in Peter's Speech at Pentecost 272
Part V Luke, the Church, and Israel's Legacy 289
Chapter 11 Paul in Acts: Preacher of Eschatological Repentance to Israel 292
Chapter 12 Das Doppelwerk des Lukas und Heil als Geschichte. Oscar Cullmanns auffälliges Schweigen bezüglich des stärksten Befürworters seiner Konzeption der Heilsgeschichte im Neuen Testament 302
Conclusion: Luke the Hellenistic Historian of Israel's Legacy, Theologian of Israel's 'Christ' 315
I Luke is a Configurer (ποιητης) of oral and written traditions concerning events and matters purporting to have taken place in the real world of the author. By 'arranging' a new narrative sequence different from a number of predecessors, Luke imparts a new cognitive and affective understanding of these happenings 315
1 Patterns of Recurrence from Authoritative Written and Oral Traditions 317
2 Patterns of Recurrence of 'First Person' Participation within the Described Events 328
3 Patterns of Recurrence Attributed to an Overarching Divine Will, Fate, or Necessity 330
II Luke is a Manager (οικονομος) of the Narrative 'Economy' (οικονομια). As rhetorical elaborator, Luke turns to various tropes of conventional poetics to effect the understanding of the events that he wishes his audience to attain. 332
1 Luke's'beginning' (η αρχη) for his two-volume work forecasts the plot and sets the tone for the whole: Israel's "Christ" of the scriptures "must suffer and rise up" and Jesus of Nazareth is that "Christ." 334
2 The metaleptic collapse within Luke's secondary prooimion pulls Paul into the 'continuity of the narrative' as central to the two-volume narrative 'arrangement' so that Paul emerges as chief "witness" of the Christ's "anointed" sending to Israel and the nations-"to the end of the earth." 336
Finale: Luke the Historian, Biblical Theologian of Israel's "Christ" 339
Bibliography 340
Index 358