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The Preface to Luke's Gospel

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Part of Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series

  • Date Published: October 2005
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521018814

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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.

    • Wide-ranging in the issues it addresses about Luke and his work
    • Overturns a scholarly consensus with regard to the the provenance of Luke's Gospel
    • Throws new light on the kinds of readers the Gospel was intended for
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    • Date Published: October 2005
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521018814
    • length: 268 pages
    • dimensions: 215 x 138 x 16 mm
    • weight: 0.654kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Abbreviations
    Foreword
    1. The Lucan preface: questions and assumptions
    2. On the beginnings of books
    3. Historical prefaces
    4. Scientific prefaces (1): origins and development
    5. Scientific prefaces (2): Structure, content & style
    6. Luke's preface
    7. Hellenistic Jewish prefaces
    8. The Social matrix of Luke's preface
    9 The appropriate form of words for the occasion
    Appendix A: selected scientific prefaces
    Appendix B: bibliographical notes on texts studied
    Short bibliography
    Index.

  • Author

    Loveday Alexander

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