The Way According to Luke: Hearing the Whole Story of Luke-Acts

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Mar 10, 2006 - Religion - 404 pages
Among the classics of ancient Greek and Jewish literature, the story of Luke-Acts has few rivals. Yet we moderns miss much of the meaning of Luke's two-part drama because we read it like any other text and not as it would have been heard by ancient listeners -- in public performance by a skilled storyteller.

The Way according to Luke unlocks the big picture of Jesus' mission by attending to the repetition, patterns, and other clues of oral narrative. In this single volume Paul Borgman lays out a holistic view of the organic unity between Luke and Acts while demonstrating that the meaning of Luke-Acts is uniquely embedded in its narrative. Borgman's distinctive work makes available both the satisfying pleasure of reading the Bible as great literature and the rewarding insight gained from receiving Scripture as it was originally delivered.

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Contents

IV
19
V
26
VI
42
VII
54
VIII
77
IX
97
X
111
XI
123
XVIII
230
XX
249
XXI
264
XXII
280
XXIII
293
XXIV
309
XXV
326
XXVI
340

XII
143
XIII
156
XIV
171
XV
186
XVI
203
XVII
217
XXVII
355
XXVIII
373
XXXI
392
XXXII
400
XXXIII
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Paul Borgman is professor of English at Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts. A specialist in biblical narrative, he is also the author of Genesis: The Story We Haven'tHeard. "

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