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Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death.
Building on recent scholarship that argues for a second-century date for the book of Acts, Marcion and Luke-Acts explores the probable context for the authorship not only of Acts but also of the canonical Gospel of Luke.
Tannehill shows how the narrative contributes to the impact of Luke's literary whole.
A study of the relationship between the four initial chapters of Luke's Gospel and the rest of Luke-Acts has been perceived in various ways and with varying consequences.
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In this widely-acclaimed study, Dr Esler makes extensive use of sociology and anthropology to examine the author of Luke Acts' theology as a response to social and political pressures upon the Christian community for whom he was writing.
Rather, the many intertextual references in strategic texts at the beginning, middle and end of Luke-Acts, and Luke's use of the texts, are allowed to dictate the 'themes' to which they relate. JSNTS 282
Jerusalem, the Temple, and the New Age in Luke-Acts
This study examines one significant theological theme in Luke-Acts, that of 'The plan of God'.
In my scholarly pilgrimage from parables through synoptic sayings and pronouncement stories to the gospels and Acts as narratives, the question of how these literary forms communicate, raised with urgency by Funk's work, has never left ...