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The Fate of the Jerusalem Temple in Luke-Acts

Name: The Fate of the Jerusalem Temple in Luke-Acts
Price: 126.85 GBP
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Author: Uk) Dr Steve Smith (st Mellitus College
ISBN: 9780567666468

The Role of the Old Testament in Stephen's Speech and Jesus' Laments Over Jerusalem

by Uk) Dr Steve Smith (st Mellitus College

Hardback
256 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
15.8 x 23.7 x 2.3 cm

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What was Luke's attitude to the Jerusalem temple? Steve Smith examines the key texts which concern the destruction of the Jerusalem temple in Luke-Acts. Smith proposes that Acts 7 is a fuller discussion of the material contained in the Gospel sayings on this subject, which themselves make frequent allusion to the Old Testament and the interpretation of which thus requires an understanding of Luke's use of the Old Testament. Accordingly, in this work, Steve Smith makes a thorough review of Luke's use of the Old Testament, and proposes that relevance theory is a capable hermeneutical tool to permit the reconstruction of how Luke's readers would have understood references to the Old Testament. Using this approach, the key texts from Luke-Acts are examined sequentially, and Luke's apparent criticism of the temple is examined in a new light.