TY  - BOOK
AU  - Strelan,Rick
TI  - Luke the priest: the authority of the author of the Third Gospel 
SN  - 9780754680642
AV  - BS2595.55 .S87 2008eb
U1  - 226.4/06 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Aldershot, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate Pub.
KW  - Luke,
KW  - Bible
KW  - Luke
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - fast
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Biblical Studies
KW  - New Testament
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-182) and indexes; Who were the Gospel writers? -- Gospels, authors and authority -- The status of Luke in scholarship -- Why write another Gospel? -- Owning, controlling, guarding the traditions -- The oral and the written -- Luke in the tradition -- Luke among the scholars -- Luke the priest -- Luke as authoritative interpreter of Scripture -- Luke as interpreter of the Jesus traditions -- Luke as interpreter of Paul
N2  - This book focuses on the authority and status of the author of Luke-Acts. What authority did he have to write a Gospel, to interpret the Jewish Scriptures and traditions of Israel, to interpret the Jesus traditions, and to update the narrative with a second volume with its interpretation of Paul and the other apostles who appear in the Acts narrative? Rick Strelan constructs the author as a Jewish Priest, examining such issues as writing and orality, authority and tradition, and the status and role of priests. The analysis is set within the context of scholarly opinion about the author, the in
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