Centering on God: Method and Message in Luke-ActsThis comprehensive consideration of Luke-Acts offers lucid introductions to a wide variety of exegetical methods. Emphasizing the use of literary criticism, and relating the methods of Roland Barthes's five literary voices, the author analyzes point of view, levels of reliability, and strategies for reformulating reader response, narrative structure, characterization, textual gaps, the cultural repertoire, and redundant antitheses. This book advocates synthesis as the ultimate aim of reading and interpreting and opens new avenues for understanding this important unit of New Testament literature. |
Common terms and phrases
accusations action Acts align analepsis analeptic Ananias Ananias and Sapphira angels anticipates antitheses apostles Barthes becomes biblical borderline character characterization claims competence phase conjunction context Conzelmann corresponds creates a narrative death demons disciples divine evaluative Fitzmyer fulfillment Further Gabriel gathering and sifting genre Gentile mission God's Haenchen healing hermeneutical Holy Spirit human identifies identity of Jesus implies inside interpretation Israel Jerusalem Jewish Jews John the Baptist Judas kingdom lawyer literary Lord Luke Luke-Acts meaning mediation Messiah ministry narrative need narrative programs narrative schema narrator narrator's norms opponents opposition parable parallels parousia Paul Paul's Pentecost performance stage perspective Peter Pharisees polemical axis prediction priest proclaims Progressive discovery prolepsis proleptic promise prophets reader relation relationship resurrection Retrospective recovery reversal risen Jesus Samaritan sanction stages sanhedrin Satan schemata scripture speech Stephen story structure suffering symbolic voice Tannehill temptation of Jesus thematic theocentric tion understanding unformulated text unreliable Zechariah
References to this book
Witness to the Gospel: The Theology of Acts I. Howard Marshall,David Peterson No preview available - 1998 |
Other Followers of Jesus: Minor Characters as Major Figures in Mark's Gospel Joel F. Williams No preview available - 1994 |