Luke 1: Luke 1:1–9:50 (Hermeneia | HERM)

by Francois Bovon

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 2002

Overview

This is the first of a three-volume commentary on the Gospel of Luke, covering the birth narratives through the Galilean ministry of Jesus. The introduction covers the text-critical questions of the Gospel, as well as its canonization, language, structure, origin, and theological profile. François Bovon argues that Luke is not a direct student of Paul, but represents a specific form of the Pauline school in the third generation of the churches. The author also treats how the Gospel was used in later generations: writers from the early church, the Middle Ages, and the Reformation. He includes excursuses on “The Virgin Birth and the History of Religions,” “The Devil,” “The Word of God,” and “Forgiveness of Sins.”

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Key Features

• Covers the birth narratives through the Galilean ministry of Jesus
• Argues that Luke is not a direct student of Paul
• Explores the text-critical questions of the Gospel
• Discusses how the Gospel of Luke was used in later generations

Contents

Top Highlights

“Common to Matthew and Luke is the interest in Jesus’ face. Both use the word πρόσωπον (‘face,’ Luke 9:29*; Matt 17:2*).” (Page 370)

“The content of v. 8* is perhaps familiar and banal in order to accentuate the divine ‘ambush.’ Until now, only Mary has heard the message; now a larger circle will receive it (v. 18*).” (Page 87)

“The living relationship between God and his people ensues in the ‘sacramental’ unity of res and verbum, in which the interpretation is added to the event.⁵⁶ God grants both at once. In v. 9* the third angelophany thus far is recorded.” (Page 87)

“With it, the narrative depicts the hiddenness of the new Messiah. The time of night affirms both the unexpected event and the dark predicament of the people of Israel.” (Page 87)

“The shocking character of the pregnant bride-to-be who travels with her fiancé should not be smoothed over;³⁴ it is provoked by Luke.” (Page 85)

Product Details

• Title: Luke 1: A Commentary on the Gospel of Luke 1:1–9:50
• Author: Francois Bovon
• Series: Hermeneia
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 2002
• Logos Release Date: 2006
• Pages: 480
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible › Commentaries--Collected works; Bible. N.T. Luke › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. Luke 1:1-9:50 › Commentaries
• Resource ID: LLS:HRMNEIA63ALK
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:01:18Z

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.