Luke the priest. The authority of the author of the third gospel, R. Strelan
With this study, Strelan aims to reconstruct the writer of the Third Gospel in terms of the question who, or what, gave him the authority to interpret the Scriptures of Israel and the traditions of Jesus and Paul in order to write Luke-Acts. Strelan's point of departure is that it is possible t...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2010, Volume: 44, Issue: 1, Pages: 196-199 |
| Review of: | Luke the priest (Aldershot [u.a.] : Ashgate, 2008) (Nel, Marius)
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| Summary: | With this study, Strelan aims to reconstruct the writer of the Third Gospel in terms of the question who, or what, gave him the authority to interpret the Scriptures of Israel and the traditions of Jesus and Paul in order to write Luke-Acts. Strelan's point of departure is that it is possible to reconstruct the author's identity based on his particular portrait of Jesus and Paul, since he portrayed Jesus and Paul in his own image and according to his own agenda. His main thesis is that the author of Luke-Acts was a Jewish priest who had become a follower of Jesus, and that his status as a priest gave him the authority to interpret the traditions of Israel, Jesus and Paul (113). According to Strelan, Luke wrote like other Jewish priests (for example Josephus, the Chronicler and the Teacher of Righteousness at Qumran) who had transmitted, interpreted and guarded Israel's history. Luke's aim was a refined and edited written version of his own oral performances of the Gospel for the benefit of his student, Theophilus (12). Scholars therefore need to read Luke-Acts according to a priestly view of history because Luke wanted to reveal how God had acted in history (18-19). |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/EJC83355 |