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THE PREFACE TO LUKE'S GOSPEL
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| By: |
Loveday Alexander, John Court |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521018811 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521018814 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 June, 2005 |
| Series: |
Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series No. 78 |
| Pages: |
268 |
| Description: |
Completely re-evaluates the backgound to and provenance of the preface to Luke's Gospel. |
| Synopsis: |
Luke's two-volume work begins with a formal preface unlike anything else in the New Testament, and it has long been academic orthodoxy that Luke's choice of style, vocabulary, and content in this short passage reveal a desire to present his work to contemporary readers as 'History' in the great tradition of Thucydides and Polybius. This study challenges that assumption: far from aping the classical historians, Dr Alexander argues, Luke was simply introducing his book in a style that would have been familiar to readers of the scientific and technical manuals which proliferated in the hellenistic world. The book contains a detailed study of these Greek 'scientific' prefaces as well as a word-by-word commentary on the Lucan texts. In her concluding chapters, Alexander seeks to explore the consequences of this alignment both for the literary genre of Luke-Acts (is it meant to be read as 'history'?) and for the social background of the author and the book's first readers. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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