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Preface To Luke's Gospel

by Loveday Alexander

  • Paperback
  • 268 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.6 cm

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Luke's two-volume work begins with a formal preface unlike anything else in the New Testament, and it has long been academic orthodoxy that Luke's choice of style, vocabulary, and content in this short passage reveal a desire to present his work to contemporary readers as 'History' in the great tradition of Thucydides and Polybius. This study challenges that assumption: far from aping the classical historians, Dr Alexander argues, Luke was simply introducing his book in a style that would have been familiar to readers of the scientific and technical manuals which proliferated in the hellenistic world. The book contains a detailed study of these Greek 'scientific' prefaces as well as a word-by-word commentary on the Lucan texts. In her concluding chapters, Alexander seeks to explore the consequences of this alignment both for the literary genre of Luke-Acts (is it meant to be read as 'history'?) and for the social background of the author and the book's first readers.
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  • Author

    Loveday Alexander

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    October 2005

  • Weight

    346g

  • Page Count

    268

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521018814

  • ISBN-10

    0521018811

  • Eden Code

    1007410

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