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Luke the priest : the authority of the author of the Third Gospel / Rick Strelan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (x, 194 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780754680642
  • 0754680649
  • 9781351921206
  • 1351921207
  • 9780754662594
  • 0754662594
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Luke the priest.DDC classification:
  • 226.4/06 22
LOC classification:
  • BS2595.55 .S87 2008eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Who were the Gospel writers? -- Gospels, authors and authority -- The status of Luke in scholarship -- Why write another Gospel? -- Owning, controlling, guarding the traditions -- The oral and the written -- Luke in the tradition -- Luke among the scholars -- Luke the priest -- Luke as authoritative interpreter of Scripture -- Luke as interpreter of the Jesus traditions -- Luke as interpreter of Paul.
Summary: This book focuses on the authority and status of the author of Luke-Acts. What authority did he have to write a Gospel, to interpret the Jewish Scriptures and traditions of Israel, to interpret the Jesus traditions, and to update the narrative with a second volume with its interpretation of Paul and the other apostles who appear in the Acts narrative? Rick Strelan constructs the author as a Jewish Priest, examining such issues as writing and orality, authority and tradition, and the status and role of priests. The analysis is set within the context of scholarly opinion about the author, the in.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)269510

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-182) and indexes.

Who were the Gospel writers? -- Gospels, authors and authority -- The status of Luke in scholarship -- Why write another Gospel? -- Owning, controlling, guarding the traditions -- The oral and the written -- Luke in the tradition -- Luke among the scholars -- Luke the priest -- Luke as authoritative interpreter of Scripture -- Luke as interpreter of the Jesus traditions -- Luke as interpreter of Paul.

This book focuses on the authority and status of the author of Luke-Acts. What authority did he have to write a Gospel, to interpret the Jewish Scriptures and traditions of Israel, to interpret the Jesus traditions, and to update the narrative with a second volume with its interpretation of Paul and the other apostles who appear in the Acts narrative? Rick Strelan constructs the author as a Jewish Priest, examining such issues as writing and orality, authority and tradition, and the status and role of priests. The analysis is set within the context of scholarly opinion about the author, the in.

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