By Patricia Walters
For almost nineteen hundred years, few have wondered the one authorship of Luke and Acts. A cautious reassessment of the inner and exterior facts, besides the fact that, finds this assumption to be equipped on a shakier beginning than was once formerly idea. Patricia Walters's leading edge research deals a newly designed statistical research of Luke and Acts, pointing to the lifestyles of hugely major alterations of their prose sort. particularly, a complete survey and re-assessment of the 2 books' least contested authorial stratum - their seams and summaries - brings to mild historic prose compositional styles that distinguish Luke and Acts past an inexpensive doubt. Walters's program of statistical research is exclusive in biblical scholarship, and should offer impetus for utilizing comparable tools in different parts of the sector. This ebook will for that reason be of serious curiosity to educational researchers and scholars of early Christianity, classical literature and rhetoric, and New testomony experiences.
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The investigation of style reveals a notable absence of detailed inquiry into the differences between Luke and Acts. Except for Hawkins’ work, differences are downplayed or totally ignored. Why? The reason is that single authorship is simply taken for granted; there is no need to hunt for differences when authorial unity is assumed. Therefore, differences must and will be taken into consideration. Theological-thematic evidence Although stylistic similarities shape much of the internal evidence on which the single authorship hypothesis is based, scholars also study theological and thematic internal evidence shared by Luke and Acts.
93 Talbert, Literary Patterns, pp. , 61. 95 As theological-thematic internal evidence, Talbert’s parallel arrangements show a literary architecture of theme and style, within and between the two books. As two key representatives of structurally oriented research, the Talbert and Conzelmann examples are deeply rooted in the authorial unity of Luke and Acts. Ideational orientation. An ideational orientation is one that reveals how a specific theological concept or theme is used or developed in a parallel way in both books.
Keck and J. : Sigler Press, 1999), pp. 51–59. 96 Fitzmyer, Luke I–IX, pp. 143–270. 97 For a full treatment of this perspective, see Tannehill, The Narrative Unity of LukeActs. 98 Hemer, The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History, p. 30. ”99 Parsons and Pervo convincingly suggest that a fully integrated Christology, eschatology, theological anthropology, soteriology, or ecclesiology has yet to be demonstrated. Although they presume single authorship, Parsons and Pervo rightly conclude that this premise does not alone guarantee a coherent unity: Acceptance of the authorial unity of Luke and Acts should not imply acceptance of unity on other levels.
