The Way According to Luke: Hearing the Whole Story of Luke-Acts

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Mar 10, 2006 - Religion - 404 pages
Among the classics of ancient Greek and Jewish literature, the story of Luke-Acts has few rivals. Yet we moderns miss much of the meaning of Luke's two-part drama because we read it like any other text and not as it would have been heard by ancient listeners -- in public performance by a skilled storyteller.

The Way according to Luke unlocks the big picture of Jesus' mission by attending to the repetition, patterns, and other clues of oral narrative. In this single volume Paul Borgman lays out a holistic view of the organic unity between Luke and Acts while demonstrating that the meaning of Luke-Acts is uniquely embedded in its narrative. Borgman's distinctive work makes available both the satisfying pleasure of reading the Bible as great literature and the rewarding insight gained from receiving Scripture as it was originally delivered.
 

Contents

IV
19
V
26
VI
42
VIII
54
IX
77
X
97
XI
111
XII
123
XX
230
XXII
249
XXIII
264
XXIV
280
XXV
293
XXVI
309
XXVII
326
XXVIII
340

XIII
143
XIV
156
XV
171
XVI
186
XVII
203
XIX
217
XXIX
355
XXX
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XXXIII
392
XXXIV
400
XXXV
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Paul Borgman is professor of English at Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts. A specialist in biblical narrative, he is also the author of Genesis: The Story We Haven'tHeard. "

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