The Lukan Passion and the Praiseworthy Death. By Peter J. Scaer

Faced with the shameful stigma of the cross, Scaer argues, Luke drew on deeply held Greco-Roman rhetorical conventions to present Jesus’ death instead as noble and praiseworthy. Many of Luke's redactional changes, he maintains, have been inspired by what he calls the ‘noble death tradition’. Th...

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Main Author: Bond, Helen K. 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2008
In: The journal of theological studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 59, Issue: 1, Pages: 444-445
Review of:The Lukan passion and the praiseworthy death (Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2005) (Bond, Helen K.)
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