[Rezension von: Crabbe, Kylie, 1977-, Luke/Acts and the end of history]
Kylie Crabbe’s Luke/Acts and the End of History, a revision of her 2017 Oxford doctoral dissertation, joins the longstanding debate about Luke’s view of history and his supposed disinterest in eschatology. Crabbe argues compellingly that, for Luke, history and eschatology can and do go together. In...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 72, Issue: 2, Pages: 954-956 |
| Review of: | Luke/Acts and the end of history (Berlin : De Gruyter, 2019) (Newberry, Julie)
Luke/acts and the end of history (Berlin : De Gruyter, 2019) (Newberry, Julie) |
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| Summary: | Kylie Crabbe’s Luke/Acts and the End of History, a revision of her 2017 Oxford doctoral dissertation, joins the longstanding debate about Luke’s view of history and his supposed disinterest in eschatology. Crabbe argues compellingly that, for Luke, history and eschatology can and do go together. In demonstrating this point, she clarifies Luke’s handling of related motifs, including divine and human agency, politics, and the experience of suffering. These substantive contributions flow out of cross-genre comparative work, her study’s primary methodological contribution.Crabbe’s introduction situates her project in relation to earlier studies—not least Hans Conzelmann’s Die Mitte der Zeit, which popularized the view that Luke responded to the ‘delay’ of the Parousia by replacing the early kerygma’s emphasis on an imminent eschaton with a focus on salvation history. Arguing that the post-WWII context overdetermined Conzelmann’s proposal, Crabbe objects to the tendency uncritically to assume a moderated version of this uneschatological reading of Luke/Acts, even today. She attributes the persistence of this questionable interpretation to shifts in scholarly interests, particularly recent fixation with Luke/Acts’s genre(s). Without denying the hermeneutical importance of genre, Crabbe maintains that this focus has led to an artificial delimitation of the ancient texts with which Luke/Acts is read, resulting in skewed accounts of the conceptions of history and eschatology available in Luke’s context. To redress this problem, her study includes 10 roughly contemporary Jewish and non-Jewish comparative texts from a range of genres, not only historiographies but also ‘popular exempla, Latin epic, and apocalypses’ (p. 40; Chapter 2). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flab140 |