Studies in Luke, Acts, and Paul

by C. Kavin Rowe

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2024

Overview

C. Kavin Rowe’s keenest essays on Luke, Acts, and Paul, collected into one volume

How should scholars undertake New Testament interpretation? C. Kavin Rowe unfolds a careful, multidisciplinary approach across fifteen of his most incisive articles and chapters. Focusing on Luke, Acts, and Paul’s letters, this authoritative collection exemplifies how to enrich exegesis through historical inquiry, philosophical reasoning, and theological reflection. Topics include:

The historical context of the Roman imperial cult

Ecclesial theology in Luke and Acts

The relationship between Luke and Acts

Paul and material culture

Seeking the truth of Scripture requires more than a close reading of the text. Rowe’s work on Luke, Acts, and Paul demonstrates how fruitful biblical interpretation can be when interpreters cross disciplinary boundaries. This volume is an indispensable addition to the libraries of scholars, students, and serious readers of Scripture alike.

Key Features

• Provides an indispensable addition to the libraries of scholars, students, and serious readers of Scripture alike
• Demonstrates how fruitful biblical interpretation can be when interpreters cross disciplinary boundaries
• Unfolds a careful, multidisciplinary approach across fifteen of his most incisive articles and chapters

Contents

• Preface
• List of Abbreviations

Part 1: Christology, Greco-Roman Culture, and Canonical Reception: Readings in Luke and Acts

• Luke-Acts and the Imperial Cult: A Way through the Conundrum?
• The God of Israel and Jesus Christ: Luke, Marcion, and the Unity of the Canon
• Luke and the Trinity: An Essay in Ecclesial Biblical Theology
• The Grammar of Life: The Areopagus Speech and Pagan Tradition
• Reading World Upside Down: A Response to Matthew Sleeman and John Barclay
• The Book of Acts and the Cultural Explication of the Identity of God
• The Ecclesiology of Acts
• History, Hermeneutics, and the Unity of Luke-Acts
• Literary Unity and Reception History: Reading Luke-Acts as Luke and Acts
• Acts 2:36 and the Continuity of Lukan Christology
• Authority and Community: Lukan Dominium in Acts

Part 2: Biblical Studies and Theology in Practice: Readings in Paul

• St. Paul and the Moral Law
• The Trinity in the Letters of St. Paul and Hebrews
• New Testament Iconography? Situating Paul in the Absence of Material Evidence
• Romans 10:13: What Is the Name of the Lord?
• Bibliography
• Indexes

Product Details

• Title: Studies in Luke, Acts, and Paul
• Author: C. Kavin Rowe
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 363
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. N.T. Luke › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. N.T. Acts › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. N.T. Pauline Epistles › Criticism, interpretation, etc
• ISBNs: 9780802882745, 0802882749
• Resource ID: LLS:STLUKEACTSPAUL
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-15T20:14:51Z

About C. Kavin Rowe

Academic research focuses primarily on the New Testament, both in its historical particularity and in its relation to the later Christian theological tradition. In addition to detailed exegetical studies on New Testament texts, he has published articles on topics ranging from the Imperial cult in the Graeco-Roman world to the doctrine of the Trinity. His first book, Early Narrative Christology: The Lord in the Gospel of Luke, deals with the narrative articulation of the identity of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. Dr. Rowe was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Heidelberg in 2002-2003 and Regional Scholar for the Society of Biblical Literature in 2006. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).