Reading Luke: A Literary and Theological Commentary (Reading the New Testament, 2nd Series)
Overview
In this book, Andrew Arterbury seeks to read and expound upon the final form of the Gospel of Luke from both a literary and theological angle. To buttress both endeavors, Arterbury routinely asks how the first readers (or listeners) of Luke’s Gospel likely made sense of both the literary flow of the book as well as the theological convictions it espouses. To ask about the readers Luke first envisioned when he wrote this Gospel is to ask how late first-century Jewish and Gentile Christians, enmeshed in the cultures of the Mediterranean basin, likely responded to Luke’s Gospel—a vivid narrative about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, God’s anointed Son, Savior, and prophet.
- Helps readers gain a greater understanding of and appreciation for biblical texts in their original contexts
- Explores the literary and theological angles of Luke
- Focuses on the larger narrative of the Gospels
Top Highlights
“That Luke narrates Gabriel’s instructions to Zechariah in the same literary style and sequence that writers used when describing OT call stories in the past is highly significant. In particular, Luke likely hoped his readers would recognize that the same God who intervened on behalf of God’s people in the past is once again intervening to rescue his people in Luke’s day.” (Page 13)
“Luke sets up a correlation between prayer and revelation or divine enlightenment (Crump, Jesus the Intercessor, 21)” (Page 12)
The literary artistry of the Gospel of Luke makes it an ideal text for careful literary analysis. Andrew Arterbury’s new book, Reading Luke: A Literary and Theological Commentary, offers precisely that—a perceptive and sensitive reading of Luke’s narrative, informed by strategic probes of the cultural environment in which Luke wrote. Arterbury provides a reliable guide to this Gospel and to the theological vision that comes to expression in Luke’s artful narrative.
—John Carroll, Harriet Robertson Fitts Memorial Professor of New Testament Union Presbyterian Seminary
Andrew Arterbury carefully yet succinctly walks us through Luke’s Gospel. Along the way he rightly keeps in mind the larger context of this Gospel and its intertextual relation to Israel’s earlier Scriptures.
—Craig S. Keener F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies Asbury Theological Seminary
- Title: Reading Luke: A Literary and Theological Commentary
- Author: Andrew E. Arterbury
- Series: Reading the New Testament, 2nd Series
- Publisher: Smyth & Helwys
- Publication Date: 2019
- Pages: 246
- Resource Type: Commentary
- Topic: Gospel of Luke