The Past As Legacy
Subtitle: Luke-Acts and Ancient Epic
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780800632250
Subjects: Biblical concordances & commentaries; Books of the New Testament; New Testament Commentary; Criticism, Textual; Religion - Biblical Studies; N.T.; Religion; N.T; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Biblical Studies - New Testament; Christianity - History - General; Bible - Commentaries - New Testament; Biblical Commentary - New Testament; Acts; Bible; Bible.; Luke
First sentence: Without excluding the significant contributions of their predecessors, Henry J. Cadbury and Martin Dibelius may arguably be regarded as the seminal figures in Lukan research for this century.
Description: "Interpreting Luke-Acts as a prose adaptation of heroic or historical epic provides an interpretative 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, and especially the Aeneid, and suggests that the historical situation for the composition of Luke-Acts was closely analogous in key respects, for example: its literary structure, epic journey, divine mission, prophecy, and reversal of destiny."--BOOK JACKET.