The Past as Legacy

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Request a Review copy Please select a version: Digital Digital copies are fulfulled via Edelweiss, an external trusted partner. Request an Exam copy Please select a version: Request an Desk copy Please select a version: Description This study addresses the genre and interpretation of Luke through Acts in the light of its contemporary social, literary, and ideological milieu, particularly as these elements are reflected in the Latin epics contemporary with Luke-Acts and in their famous Augustan prototype, Virgil's Aeneid.

Literary evidence indicating that Virgil's works had been translated into Greek prose by the middle of the first century makes this line of inquiry especially promising. Interpreting Luke-Acts as a prose adaptation of heroic or historical epic provides a hermeneutical model that is both universal in its theological message and essentially popular in its narrative presentation.

Beginning with the question of literary occasion, Bonz introduces the particular configuration of historical circumstances that produced the great foundational epics of Gilgamesh, the Iliad and Odyssey, as well as the Aeneid, and suggests that the historical situation for the composition of Luke-Acts was closely analogous in key respects, for example: Bonz's study is convincing.

Careful readers can gain valuable insights into Luke-Acts by focusing on Chapter 4, "The Dramatic Unfolding of Prophecy adn History in Luke-Acts," and Chapter 5, "Luke-Acts Reconsidered," in which she surveys the major sections of both volumes for their stylistic features and dramatic movement.

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Beginning with the question of literary occasion, this study introduces the particular configuration of historical circumstances that produced the great foundational epics of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, and the Odyssey, as well as the Aeneid, and suggests that the historical situation for the composition of Luke-Acts was closely analogous in certain key respects. After a detailed examination of the salient elements of dramatic presentation, function, and interpretation of the Aeneid and its direct literary descendants is provided, the generic paradigm of epic is applied to the composition of Luke-Acts, beginning with a detailed exegetical analysis of Acts 2 and ultimately comprising a survey of Luke's two-part work in its entirety.

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The study concludes that, in his dynamic narrative presentation of a divinely ordained mission, which begins with Jesus in Nazareth and ends with Paul in Rome, Luke has endeavored to interpret the underlying meaning of the whole of Christian history--and in a manner surprisingly analogous to Virgil's interpretation of the meaning of Roman history. Indeed, at the center of Luke's theological reflections is the conviction that the divine solution for human salvation involves not only the death of the beloved Son but also the reformulation of the people of God.

This book is the product of a long and sometimes circuitous intellectual odyssey begun nearly ten years ago.

Many people contributed to defining its course and enabling its progress. After expressing special thanks to Wendell V.

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Clausen, who generously agreed to read and critically evaluate my chapter on Virgil, I would like to acknowledge my particular indebtedness to four outstanding teachers: I am also grateful to K. Hanson and the editorial staff at Fortress Press for their helpful advice and patience in the preparation of this manuscript.

Last but by no means least, I would like to thank my husband, Richard, whose encouragement and generosity of spirit set this entire undertaking in motion. Would you like to tell us about a lower price?

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