Luke's Gospel Research Articles

Meals With Jesus in Luke's Gospel

Meals With Jesus in Luke's Gospel

Toward a Narrative-Critical Understanding of Luke

To ascertain the theology of the Gospels lies within the purview of both narrative and historical criticism, and narrative criticism also obligates the interpreter to deal with historical questions. To say this, however, is not to deny the distinctiveness of each method. Each method poses different questions, pursues different goals, and obtains different results. To observe this, one may note how each deals with such major questions as the purpose of Luke's Gospel, the role Luke's infancy narrative plays within his story, and the relationship of Luke's Gospel to Acts.

The Plot of Luke's Story of Jesus

In the story of Luke's Gospel, the primary conflict at the human level is that between Jesus and the religious authorities. This conflict, while it reaches its culmination in the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus, comes to its head in the episode of Jesus on the cross. Whereas the authorities believe that Jesus' death vindicates them as Israel's rightful rulers, the reader knows that, ironically, the cross is the place where Jesus is at once publicly proclaimed as Israel's Messiah-King and anticipates the onset of his glorious reign of salvation.

Book Review: The Preface to Luke's Gospel

Book Review: The Preface to Luke's Gospel

Absent Joy: An Investigation of the Narrative Pattern of Repetition and Variation in the Parables of Luke 15

The fifteenth chapter of Luke's gospel has been recognized as a literary unit. Perhaps because of the length of the Lost Son parable, however, few critics have interpreted the chapter as a whole. Many commentators, moreover, explain the parables of Luke 15 primarily in terms of their detailed reconstructions of first century life. Yet parables, which seem at first glance to present realistic pictures, are narrative fictions whose world of reference cannot be exhausted by reference to everyday scenes from Palestine.

Jesus, the Victorious Scribal-Intercessor in Luke's Gospel

Few investigations in biblical studies begin with utterly unique ideas. We all stand upon the shoulders of our predecessors. This study is no exception. There is nothing new about this paper's claim that Jesus' prayer for Peter, referred to in Luke 22.31–32, is thematically related to Satan's fall from heaven, narrated in Luke 10. 18. Adolf Schlatter articulated the similarities between these two texts, which have given rise to similar interpretative suggestions made more briefly by others. Schlatter made three basic observations. Firstly, in both scenes Satan's power stands in opposition to the disciples: directly in 22.31–32; indirectly through the demons in 10.17–19. Secondly, Satan has been in heaven before God: implied in 22.31–32; the point of origin for his fall in 10.18. Thirdly, Jesus is not a mere spectator, but in some way has a hand in resolving the situation in each case. While Schlatter did not elaborate on the final point, any more than he did the others, the remainder of this study will try to demonstrate more clearly what Schlatter seems to have sensed. Just as Luke 22.31–32 portrays Jesus-the-Advocate standing against Satan-the-Accuser in heaven, so 10.18 offers a picture of the decisive overthrow of this accuser from heaven. Furthermore, the implication is that this heavenly overthrow has been accomplished through the prayers of the scribal-intercessor, Jesus.

The road to Emmaus: reading Luke's gospel

The road to Emmaus: reading Luke's gospel

Jesus and Women in Matthew

Jane Kopas is Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Scranton. She received her doctorate at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, and she has taught at the College of Wooster. Her articles on “Jesus and Women: John's Gospel” and “Jesus and Women: Luke's Gospel” appeared in Theology Today, July 1984 and July 1986.

Luke 9.7–62 and the Prophetic Role of Jesus

Chapter 9 is the pivot of Luke's gospel containing, as it does, the transfiguration as well as marking the transition from the Galilee ministry to the journey to Jerusalem. Not only is it rich in incident, it is also rich in the range of titles given to Jesus. It includes the first recognition, outside the infancy narrative, of Jesus' messianic role (9. 20), the first passion prediction of the Son of Man (9. 22) as well as the first mention of the future Son of Man (9. 26). Furthermore, the chapter contains two titles peculiar to Luke, Master (έπιστάτες, 9. 33, 49) and Chosen One (έκλελγμένος, 9. 35). Luke presents this wealth of christological material in answer to the question posed by Herod, ‘Who is this about whom I hear such things?’ (9. 9). The complexity of the christology in Luke 9 stems not only from the variety of the explicit titles but also from Luke's direct mention of, or allusions to, OT prophets who are used as antetypes for the prophetic role of Jesus. The prophetic ideas in the Lucan writings have been set out by Tiede but the importance of the prophetic element in Luke 9 seems to have been somewhat overlooked in the more detailed studies of this chapter. Ellis, in his essay on the sources of the christology of Luke 9, has noted the Moses typology and possible allusions to Isaiah's servant, although it is doubtful whether the use of κλελεγμέ in 9. 35 (cf κλεκτόζ, Isa 42. 1) and the prediction of Jesus' suffering and rejection are sufficient to make the presence of the servant idea here more than speculative.

Book Review: Jesus and the New Age: A Commentary on St. Luke's Gospel

Book Review: Jesus and the New Age: A Commentary on St. Luke's Gospel

The Economy of the Kingdom: Social Conflict and Economic Relations in Luke's Gospel. By Halvor Moxnes. Overtures to Biblical Theology, 16. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988. xxii + 183 pages. $12.95 (paper).

The Economy of the Kingdom: Social Conflict and Economic Relations in Luke's Gospel. By Halvor Moxnes. Overtures to Biblical Theology, 16. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988. xxii + 183 pages. $12.95 (paper). - Volume 17 Issue 1

The Economy of the Kingdom: Social Conflict and Economic Relations in Luke's Gospel

The Economy of the Kingdom: Social Conflict and Economic Relations in Luke's Gospel

A New Edition of Luke's Gospel - The American and British Committees of the International Greek New Testament Project: The New Testament in Greek, 3: The Gospel according to St. Luke, Part Two, Chapters 13–24. Pp. 262. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. £65.00.

A New Edition of Luke's Gospel - The American and British Committees of the International Greek New Testament Project: The New Testament in Greek, 3: The Gospel according to St. Luke, Part Two, Chapters 13–24. Pp. 262. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. £65.00. - Volume 39 Issue 2

New Resolutions of Old Conundrums: A Fresh Insight into Luke's Gospel. J. Duncan M. Derrett

<i>New Resolutions of Old Conundrums: A Fresh Insight into Luke's Gospel</i>. J. Duncan M. Derrett

The Destruction of Jerusalem according to Luke's Gospel: A Historical Typological Moral

The Destruction of Jerusalem according to Luke's Gospel: A Historical Typological Moral

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Journal Article REVIEWS Get access The Destruction of Jerusalem according to Luke's Gospel. A Historical-Typological Moral. By CHARLES HOMER GIBLIN SJ. Pp. x+123. (Analecta Biblica, 107.) Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1985. L. 20,000/$15.00. I. HOWARD MARSHALL I. HOWARD MARSHALL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, October 1986, Pages 531–532, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/37.2.531 Published: 01 October 1986

Jesus and Women: Luke's Gospel

“When an action, a cure, an expression of faith, or an example in parable is attributed to a man, more often than not a complementary model of a woman is given. With some exceptions, this is not done by way of comparison or contrast, but rather to suggest a measure of equality, an equality that was unexpected in the time of Jesus.”

Non-Theological Reflections on St. Luke's Gospel

Non-Theological Reflections on St. Luke's Gospel

The International Project to establish a Critical Apparatus to Luke's Gospel

A magisterial and highly critical review by T. W. Manson of S. C. E. Legg's edition of Matthew in theJ.T.S.of 1942 became a significant factor in causing the proposed series of critical apparatuses that was intended to cover the entire New Testament to be abandoned after only two volumes had been issued. Legg's edition of Mark had appeared in 1935, Matthew was the second volume to appear: the third volume (on Luke) was prepared but was not accepted for publication largely as a result of Manson's article.

Book Review: Luke's Gospel as a Historical Record

Book Review: Luke's Gospel as a Historical Record