Luke 3: Luke 19:28–24:53 (Hermeneia | HERM)

by Francois Bovon

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 2012

Overview

François Bovon’s commentary on the Gospel of Luke is justly renowned for its combination of judicious historical and literary treatment of the Evangelist’s context and for its theological sensitivity, informed by the wealth of the Christian interpretative tradition. Luke is clearly writing history in the manner of his Hellenistic and Jewish contemporaries, but Bovon insists he remains as well “a theologian of the Word of God.” This volume is the third of a three-volume work (based upon Bovon’s four volumes in the German EKK series) and represents the author’s careful revision and updating of the German original.

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Key Features

• Includes a number of valuable insights
• Presents a detailed and authoritative interpretation
• Provides a fantastic commentary for students, teachers, scholars, and professors

Contents

Top Highlights

“Contrary to the opinion of Hans Conzelmann,⁴⁸ Luke does not think that Jesus is free of temptations between these two moments. The expression ἐν τοῖς πειρασμοῖς μου proves it. It is simply that the temptations at the beginning and end were the most intensive and the most dramatic.” (Page 175)

“The tradition Luke is following corresponds to a trend that gains momentum late in the first century and, in the second and third centuries, asserts itself against those who reject the resurrection as well as against the supporters of a spiritual resurrection.” (Page 391)

“winegrowers with bare feet.⁷¹ But he does not forget the abused servants—the prophets and Israel’s” (Page 45)

“sions, and patristic witnesses who add a honeycomb to the portion of fish.” (Page 392)

“Added to the factual objectivity is the subjectivity of the disappointed and confused companions. With great skill the evangelist recounts the devastating effect of a story deprived of its kerygmatic dimension. The hope is expressed in the imperfect (ἠλπίζομεν, ‘we were hoping’). It was legitimate, even if it was ambiguous. What kind of Israel’s deliverance is meant? Deliverance from the Romans and political oppression or from sin and the inevitable death? Whatever it was, the hope was in the dim past: It is the third day already. The reader notes the irony this chronology evokes: Was not the third day the duration predicted by the Lukan Jesus in some of the announcements of his passion (9:22; 18:33)?” (Page 373)

Product Details

• Title: Hermeneia: Luke 3: A Commentary on the Gospel of Luke 19:28–24:53
• Author: François Bovon
• Editor: Helmut Koester
• Translator: James E. Crouch
• Series: Hermeneia
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Pages: 480
• Resource Type: Commentaries
• Topic: Luke

About Francois Bovon

François Bovon was a professor from 1967 to 1993 at the University of Geneva, in its Divinity School, which was founded by John Calvin in 1559. He was dean there from 1976 to 1979, and is still an honorary professor of the University of Geneva. He began teaching New Testament and early Christian literature at Harvard in 1993, and was chair of the New Testament Department from 1993 to 1998, and again in 2001-02. In recent years he has developed his teaching and research in two directions: the exegesis of New Testament texts, particularly the Gospel of Luke, and the publication and interpretation of non-canonical Acts of the Apostles, particularly the Acts of Philip, legends on Stephen, the first Christian martyr, and apocryphal fragments. His critical commentary on Luke, in four volumes, has been completed in German and French. Spanish and Italian will soon follow. The first volume in English appeared in the “Hermeneia” series, published by Fortress Press, in 2002. The second and the third, published together, appeared in Italian in 2007. His critical edition of the Acts of Philip, done in collaboration with Bertrand Bouvier and Frédéric Amsler, was published as volume 11 in the Corpus Christianorum: Series Apocryphorum by Brepols in 1999. His book The Last Days of Jesus was published in 2006, and a Spanish translation appeared in 2007.