Genre and Point of View in Luke's Gospel

Abstract

This study examines how the relationships between Luke's Gospel and other extant literary works shape the Gospel's narrative point of view. It discusses and evaluates the major proposals for identifying the genre of Luke-Acts and shows that none of the proposed genres alone can account for the all the major literary characteristics of the Gospel. The second section considers how the genre characteristics of Gospel, Hellenistic historical/biographical narrative, and biblical narrative each convey elements of the ideological, spatial/temporal and psychological aspects of point of view of Luke's Gospel.Brigid Curtin Frein, Ph.D. (St. Louis University) has published several scholarly articles on narrative approaches to the Gospels including "Fundamentalism and Narrative Criticism of the Gospels," (BTB vol 22). She is an Associate Professor in the