Seeing Divine Speech: Sensory Intersections in Luke's Birth Narrative and Beyond

This article explores how divine discourse in Luke-Acts intersects with the sense of sight. Divine discourse is never simply heard, for speech crosses sensory lines and blurs any clear demarcation between the verbal and the visual. In exploring these sensory intersections, I begin with Luke's a...

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Main Author: Wilson, Brittany E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2020]
In: Journal for the study of the New Testament
Year: 2020, Volume: 42, Issue: 3, Pages: 251-273
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bible. Lukasevangelium 1-2 / Lucan writings / Epiphany / Direct divine speech / Sight
IxTheo Classification:HC New Testament
NBB Doctrine of Revelation
NBC Doctrine of God
NBE Anthropology
Further subjects:B Visions
B Synesthesia
B Epiphany
B sensory criticism
B Audition
B Speech
B Sight
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Summary:This article explores how divine discourse in Luke-Acts intersects with the sense of sight. Divine discourse is never simply heard, for speech crosses sensory lines and blurs any clear demarcation between the verbal and the visual. In exploring these sensory intersections, I begin with Luke's arguably most logocentric section - the birth narrative - and discuss the divine-human encounters that occur there. After this analysis of the epiphanies in Lk. 1-2, I then trace how the patterns concerning sight and its overlaps with divine speech are amplified later in Luke-Acts. Beyond the birth narrative, Luke increases the importance of the visual in divine-human encounters, mainly with respect to (1) the role of sight in epiphanies, (2) the function of signs in facilitating faith and (3) the motif of revelation and hiddenness. Indeed, we shall see that, for Luke, there is something important to ‘seeing' divine speech.
ISSN:1745-5294
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the New Testament
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0142064X19890509