The preface to Luke's Gospel: literary convention and social context in Luke 1.1-4 and Acts 1.1
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1993.
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| In: | Year: 1993 |
| Series/Journal: | Society for New Testament Studies monograph series
78 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. Luke, I, 1-4
Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Bible. Apostelgeschichte 1,1 B Bible. Lukasevangelium 1,1-4 B Bible B Bible. Acts, I, 1 Criticism, interpretation, etc B Bible ; Acts, I, 1 ; Criticism, interpretation, etc B Bible ; Luke, I, 1-4 ; Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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| Summary: | 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. Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Lucan preface: questions and assumptions -- 2. On the beginnings of books -- 3. Historical prefaces -- 4. Scientific prefaces: origins and development -- 5. Scientific prefaces: structure, content and style -- 6. Luke's preface -- 7. Prefaces in hellenistic Jewish literature -- 8. The social aatrix of Luke's preface -- 9 The appropriate form of words for the occasion -- Appendix A: Structural analysis of Luke1.1-4 and selected scientific prefaces -- Appendix B: Bibliographical notes on scientific prefaces -- Select bibliography -- Indexes |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511554826 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511554827 |