Text to text pours forth speech : voices of scripture in Luke-Acts /

Brawley (McCormick Theological Seminary) presents Luke-Acts as a sustained interplay of the story of Jesus and the early church with texts from the Septuagint. He argues that giving utterance to the voices of scripture is among the primary strategies of making sense of Jesus. Unfortunately, uninitiated readers may be intimidated by the mass of terminology on which his book depends. He introduces revisionary ratios, criteria for discerning allusions, and the idea of ungrammaticalities; employs theories of intertextuality and the figurative relationship between Luke-Acts and other voices of scripture; aspires to assist readers in arriving at new levels of meaning as they overhear the voices of scripture in selected passages of Luke-Acts; and proposes that Luke-Acts appropriates scripture in all its nuances with a dominant theocentric perspective. Through the transumption of scripture the text of Luke-Acts becomes another kind of figuration--an interplay between precursor and successor. The text is nothing other than intertext, textual patterns appropriated from the cultural repertoire. Overt allusions to scripture prompt considerations of covert allusions; Lucan allusions are revisionary and reciprocal; Luke employs a theocentric hermeneutic; fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham to bless all the families of the earth drives the understanding of God and scripture. Most readers will not hope to grasp, in a first reading, all Brawley says. Extensive notes; subject index; modern authors index. Graduate; faculty. J. W. McCant Point Loma Nazarene College