The Trial of the Gospel

Neagoe, Alexandru

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511488092

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“…For the most part, we can say that monographs on Luke, Acts or Luke-Acts (typically published dissertations) continue to assume and affirm the significance of the unity of the Lukan volumes (cf., e.g., Korn 1993;Squires 1993;Shepherd 1994;Weatherly 1994;Strauss 1995;Buckwater 1996;Lane 1996;Allen 1997;Cunningham 1997;Denova 1997;Price 1997;Roth 1997;Zwiep 1997;Wasserberg 1998;Bonz 2000;Pao 2000;Wenk 2000;Harms 2001;Hur 2001;Woods 2001;Mount 2002;Nave 2002;Neagoe 2002;Klutz 2004;Mittelstadt 2004;Rothschild 2004;Litwak 2005;Chen 2006). In some cases there is a tacit acknowledgement of the objections of Parsons and Pervo, but with a continued resistance to B IRD The Unity of Luke-Acts in Recent Discussion 427 their hypothesis.…”

Section: Nipping At the Heels Of A Consensus: The Challenge Of Parsons And Pervo To The Unity Of Luke-actsmentioning

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The Unity of Luke—Acts in Recent Discussion

Bird¹

2007

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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This article surveys the debate about the unity of Luke-Acts in recent scholarship. The study concentrates on monographs and articles written after Mikael C. Parsons and Richard I. Pervo's volume Rethinking the Unity of Luke and Acts, and identifies the recent contribution that reception-history studies have brought to the debate. This is followed with a brief analysis of the flashpoints in the debate, and a discussion of what is at stake for Lukan studies.

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Section: Nipping At the Heels Of A Consensus: The Challenge Of Parsons And Pervo To The Unity Of Luke-actsmentioning

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The Unity of Luke—Acts in Recent Discussion

Bird¹

2007

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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“…Yet in this respect we become somewhat further removed from Luke's intention and estranged from the literary dynamics of the two volumes. Alexandru Neagoe's new study of the 'trial narratives' in Luke-Acts can serve as a final example to illustrate the problem (Neagoe 2002).…”

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History, Hermeneutics and the Unity of Luke-Acts

Rowe

2005

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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This article attempts to raise questions on the basis of the early reception history of Luke and Acts about the relation between a literary-critical interpretation and an interpretation of Luke's work that asks after its meaning for an early Christian audience. That Luke-Acts can be read as a literary unity is not challenged. But the evidence that we have suggests that Luke and Acts were not read/heard together by the early Christians in the ancient world. We may thus ask whether our interpretations that depend in principle on the unity of Luke-Acts are in fact not as historical as we might suppose, at least in the sense that the texts would not have been heard together in the way we read them today. Conversely, we may also ask whether a historical interpretation that seeks to read Luke and Acts as they were most likely heard is of necessity estranged from the literary dynamics of Luke-Acts.

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“…L.T. Johnson has further explored the nature of apologetic as insider rhetoric, which creates and sustains group identity (1992; also Neagoe 2002). G. Gilbert (2002; has focused on Lukan propaganda, which creates Christian identity in light of Roman imperial themes and values, while L. Alexander (1999a) has examined the easy slippage from defense into propaganda, as the narrative would seem to have been most convincing to Christian readers rather than to an imperial Roman audience : My own stress on the epideictic features of Lukan rhetoric also highlights this premise: Acts is much more about insider group dynamics than outsider persuasion (Penner 2000).…”

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Madness in the Method? the Acts of the Apostles in Current Study

Penner

2004

Currents in Biblical Research

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Scholarship on the book of Acts frequently proceeds under the 'no final con flict' slogan when it comes to employing a diversity of methods. In this essay, however, some of the fundamental assumptions and approaches to Acts in recent scholarship are examined and challenged, raising questions related to the proliferation of method in New Testament and early Christian studies, the underlying methodological assumptions of particular interpre tive approaches, and the sublimation of theology and ideology in scholar ship. The past 15 years of Acts scholarship provides the context for this broad survey and interaction. The essential contours of the discussion are focused around matters related to genre, the nature of Acts as 'text', the book's connections to its broader socio-cultural and historical worlds, and, finally, to matters related to post-critical interactions with Acts. No easy solutions are offered in this essay; rather, the broad discussion of method in current Acts scholarship pushes for a return to greater methodological awareness and reflection in the discipline.

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The Trial of the Gospel

Cited by 7 publications

References 52 publications

The Unity of Luke—Acts in Recent Discussion

The Unity of Luke—Acts in Recent Discussion

History, Hermeneutics and the Unity of Luke-Acts

Madness in the Method? the Acts of the Apostles in Current Study

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