Community and gospel in Luke-Acts : the social and political motivations of Lucan theology /
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| Author / Creator: | Esler, Philip Francis |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987. |
| Description: | xv, 270 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monograph series (Society for New Testament Studies) 57 Monograph series (Society for New Testament Studies) 57. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/855475 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1. The socio-redaction criticism of Luke-Acts
- 1.. Social and political influences on Lucan theology
- 2.. Towards a socio-redaction criticism of Luke-Acts
- 3.. The methodology of the social sciences
- The comparative method
- 4.. Objections to the application of the social sciences to the New Testament
- 5.. Legitimation and Luke-Acts
- 2. The community
- 1.. Luke's audience-a Christian community
- 2.. When and where
- 3.. Jews and Gentiles in Luke's community
- Introduction: the case for a Gentile audience
- The universalist theme in Luke-Acts
- The incident at Nazareth (Lk 4.16-30) and pious Gentiles
- God-fearers in Luke-Acts
- 3. Sectarian strategies
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. The sociology of sectarianism: typology and model
- 3.. Sectarian strategies in Luke-Acts
- Church and sect
- Sectarian responses to the world
- From Jewish reform movement to Christian sect
- 4. Table-fellowship
- 1.. Table-fellowship between Jews and Gentiles in Luke-Acts
- 2.. Jewish antipathy to dining with Gentiles
- The anthropological perspective: external threat and purity laws
- Literary and historical evidence for the Jewish ban on dining with Gentiles
- 3.. The attitude to table-fellowship between Jews and Gentiles in Galatians, Mark and Matthew
- Table-fellowship in Galatians
- Table-fellowship in Mark
- Matthew and table-fellowship
- 4.. Table-fellowship in Luke-Acts
- The conversion of Cornelius
- The Apostolic Council
- Other instances of table-fellowship between Jews and Gentiles in Acts
- The nature of the meal in Acts 27.33-8
- Table-fellowship and Luke's legitimatory purpose
- 5. The law
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. The law in Luke's Gospel
- The infancy narratives
- Jesus' respect for the law
- Jesus' transcendence of the law
- Jesus' challenge to the law
- Jewish paranomia in the Third Gospel
- Luke 16.16-18
- Lucan omissions of legal material
- 3.. The law in Acts
- Stephen and the law
- Paul and the law
- 4.. Conclusion
- 6. The Temple
- 1.. The prominence of the Temple in Luke-Acts
- 2.. Luke's ambivalent attitude to the Temple
- 3.. The explanation for Luke's attitude to the Temple
- Historical reality and Lucan redaction in Acts 6.1-8.3
- Introduction
- The identity of the 'Hebrews' and the 'Hellenists' in Acts 6.1
- The expulsion of the Hellenists from Jerusalem
- The conflict between Hebrews and Hellenists
- Temple, God-fearers and Gospel
- The attitude of Diaspora Jews to the Temple and the law
- The Temple and the cult
- Marginalized God-fearers in Jerusalem
- The impact of the Gospel
- 4.. Conclusion: Luke's redaction and the needs of his community
- 7. The poor and the rich
- 1.. A theology of the destitute in Luke-Acts?
- 2.. Luke's theology of poverty and its social setting
- 3.. The rich and the poor in the Hellenistic cities of the Roman East
- Social stratification
- The experience of poverty
- Conclusion
- 4.. The Lucan version of the Nazareth pericope in its Hellenistic setting
- The social strata represented in Luke's community
- Luke 4.18-19 and the experience of poverty
- Conclusion
- 5.. The rich and the poor in Luke's community
- The upper socio-economic strata in Luke's community
- The poor in Luke's community
- Conclusion
- 6.. Luke's theology of the poor
- Good news for the poor, grim news for the rich
- The rich and the poor in 1 Enoch 92-105
- Luke's attitude to salvation: its other-worldly dimension
- Luke's attitude to salvation: its this-worldly dimension
- 7.. Conclusion
- 8. Rome and the ancestral theme
- 1.. Politically sensitive material in Luke-Acts
- The Roman empire in Luke-Acts
- 2.. Apologetic or legitimation?
- An historical outline of the apologetic explanation
- Problems with the apologetic approach
- An analysis of the religio licita theory
- Roman respect for ancestral tradition
- The ancestral theme in Luke-Acts
- Conclusion: political legitimation in Luke-Acts
- Epilogue: community and Gospel
- Notes
- Index of biblical references
- Index of secondary authors