Luke Was Not a Christian: Reading the Third Gospel and Acts Within Judaism

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-68471-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 218, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Biblical Interpretation Series

In this volume Joshua Paul Smith challenges the long-held assumption that Luke and Acts were written by a gentile, arguing instead that the author of these texts was educated and enculturated within a Second-Temple Jewish context. Advancing from a consciously interdisciplinary perspective, Smith considers the question of Lukan authorship from multiple fronts, including reception history and social memory theory, literary criticism, and the emerging discipline of cognitive sociolinguistics. The result is an alternative portrait of Luke the Evangelist, one who sees the mission to the gentiles not as a supersession of Jewish law and tradition, but rather as a fulfillment and expansion of Israel’s own salvation history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Joshua Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Joshua Paul Smith, Ph.D. (2021), University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology, is an adjunct instructor of New Testament and religious studies at several institutions including Central Seminary in Shawnee, Kansas, and Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.