The Birth of the Lukan Narrative: Narrative as Christology in Luke 1-2As a narrative critical study of the Lukan Infancy Narrative, this is a work which puts new questions to an old and (some would claim) over interpreted text. The work traces through the Infancy narrative two trajectories - one theological, the other epistemological. At the point of theology, Luke focuses upon God and the strange shape of the divine visitation; at the point of epistemology, Luke focuses upon the human being and what is needed to recognise the divine visitation, given its strangeness. The study then shows how the two trajectories converge in the Infancy Narrative's last episode, the Finding of the Child in the Temple. Though often accorded scant attention, this is an episode which, Coleridge argues, is the true climax of the Infancy Narrative, since it is only then that Jesus is born in the narrative as the protagonist he will prove consistently to be and only then that the Lukan Narrative itself is born. It is this rather than any physical birth which most absorbs Luke in the first two chapters of the Gospel. Though a study of the Infancy narrative, this is a work with far-reaching implications for the whole of Luke-Acts |
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| Title | The Birth of the Lukan Narrative: Narrative as Christology in Luke 1-2 Volume 88 of JSNTS Series Journal for the study of the New Testament: Supplement series Volume 88 of Supplement series, Journal for the Study of the New Testament Volume 88 of The Library of New Testament Studies |
| Author | Mark Coleridge |
| Publisher | JSOT Press, 1993 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jul 7, 2009 |
| ISBN | 1850754470, 9781850754473 |
| Length | 261 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Biblical Studies / General |
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