The Unity of Luke—Acts in Recent Discussion

Bird, Michael F.

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“…Minear and Gaventa's observations are relevant not only for individual books but also for a collection of writings with subject matter demonstrably and deliberately in common (Frye 1990). The fact that scholarship perceives some form of literary connectedness, ranging from the trivial to the substantial, between Luke's gospel and Acts (see Bird 2007;Spencer 2007) suggests, according to Northrop Frye's logic, the existence of a text-based 'conceptual unity' governing these writings (Frye 1990:xii). Frye's analysis of the Bible's function in English literature has led him to reject the perception that the Bible is a grab-bag anthology in favour of the view that it is a source of a period's 'mythology' (nota bene Frye's definition of mythology) which expresses a meta-belief informed within a cultural and psychological context (Frye 1990:xii−xxiii, 31−52).…”

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The Lukan covenant concept: The basis of Israel�s mandate in Luke-Acts

Kovaks

Gosling

Viljoen

2013

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Upon analysis of Luke�s Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles conjoined theoretically in the reading event, the basis of Israel�s mandate became pellucid in Lukan terms. This kind of analysis required the viable assumption of conceptual unity behind the gospel and Acts, and the application of the appropriate methodological approach of structural criticism. Morpho-syntactical analysis yielded positive results that suggested text-based evidence concerning Israel�s calling. It was observed that the covenant concept presented in its operative aspect of service to God was the basis of Israel�s mandate. Luke and Acts appeared to agree that Israel was called to live in obedient righteousness following the call to Abraham to walk blamelessly. The covenant-based calling was affirmed by Isaianic allusions to Israel�s mandate to be a light to the nations in her righteousness. The mandate�s disruption had disabled Israel, requiring the resolution of God�s deliverance.

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The Lukan covenant concept: The basis of Israel�s mandate in Luke-Acts

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Gosling

Viljoen

2013

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“…9 See the preceding note on my approach to the relationship between Luke and Acts. On the broader debate, see (Bird 2007). 10 This is not to suggest, incidentally, that the purpose of Luke's prologue is entirely evident.…”

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Journeys without End: Narrative Endings and Implied Readers in Acts of the Apostles and Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana

Hartog

2024

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This contribution compares the final sections of Acts of the Apostles and Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana. Through this comparison, I aim to show that these two writings resemble one another in their attention to travel as a literary theme. Both Acts and Life employ this theme to communicate their message and, in their narrative endings, set up their implied readers as travelers who are meant to continue the journeys of the protagonists in these writings. At the same time, Acts and Life differ in how exactly they envision their readers to continue the journeys of their protagonists. I will argue that these similarities and differences can be explained by the shared social and intellectual climate that Acts and Life inhabit: both writings result from discourses on travel and self that were rife among intellectuals in the Roman Empire in the first three centuries of our era, irrespective of their ethnic, legal, or cultural affiliations.

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Walters¹

2009

The Assumed Authorial Unity of Luke and Acts

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This paper presents some of the results of the author's first year of doctoral research. Despite the availability of watches, stars are still used in some villages in northern Oman to time the allocation of water for irrigation by an age-old method of tapping groundwater by gravity flow. It appears that the use of stars survives mainly in smaller settlements still dependent on agriculture for livelihoods, where light pollution is less severe than in the towns, and where the community adheres to traditional practices. Many of the stars have different names to those given in the literature on Arabic stars, and the stars used for timing water vary somewhat from one village to another. The method of stargazing also varies among villages: in some the stars are watched rising above the horizon and in others the time is known by the rising or setting of the star above or below a man-made marker, or on its reaching the zenith. A number of stars are identified by their international classification, possibly for the first time.

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The Unity of Luke—Acts in Recent Discussion

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The Lukan covenant concept: The basis of Israel�s mandate in Luke-Acts

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Journeys without End: Narrative Endings and Implied Readers in Acts of the Apostles and Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana

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