Genre and point of view in Luke's Gospel.(Report)

From: Biblical Theology Bulletin | Date: March 22, 2008| Author: Frein, Brigid Curtin | Copyright information

Abstract

This study examines how the relationships between Luke's Gospel and other extant literary works shape the Gospel's narrative point of view. It discusses and evaluates the major proposals for identifying the genre of Luke-Acts and shows that none of the proposed genres alone can account for the all the major literary characteristics of the Gospel. The second section considers how the genre characteristics of Gospel, Hellenistic historical/biographical narrative,...