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12 - Luke’s Gospel as a Narrative of Reconciliation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2025

By
Raj Nadella
Edited by
Keith Bodner
Keith Bodner
Affiliation:
Crandall University, Canada
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Summary

Addressed to a recipient with a Greek name, the book of Luke is the longest document in the New Testament, and tells the story of a Jewish messiah who lived and ministered primarily within Jewish context, but with implications for all people.

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Lukeparableprodigal son
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The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Narrative , pp. 234 - 254
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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Bakhtin, Mikhail. Rabelais and His World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.Google Scholar
Bonz, Marianne Palmer. The Past as Legacy: Luke-Acts and Ancient Epic. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000.Google Scholar
Culpepper, R. Alan. Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel: A Study in Literary Design. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1987.Google Scholar
Green, Joel B. “Narrative Criticism.” Pages 74–112 in Methods for Luke. Edited by Green, Joel B.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Herman, David. The Cambridge Companion to Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jacob, Sharon. Reading Mary Alongside Indian Surrogate Mothers: Violent Love, Oppressive Liberation, and Infancy Narratives. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Juel, Donald H. A Master of Surprise: Mark Interpreted. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002.Google Scholar
Kingsbury, Jack Dean. Conflict in Luke: Jesus, Authorities, Disciples. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.Google Scholar
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Powell, Mark Allan. Chasing the Easter Star: Adventures in Reader-Response Criticism. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001.Google Scholar
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Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. New York: Random House, 2008.Google Scholar
Spencer, F. Scott. Luke. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2019.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Smith, Abraham. “A Prodigal Sings the Blues: The Characterization of Harriett Williams in Langston Hughes’s ‘Not Without Laughter.’” Pages 145–58 in Yet With a Steady Beat: Contemporary U.S. Afrocentric Biblical Interpretation. Edited by Randall, C. Bailey. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2002.Google Scholar
Smith, Mitzi J. “Abolitionist Messiah: A Man Named Jesus Born of a Doule.” Pages 53–70 in Bitter the Chastening Rod: Africana Biblical Interpretation after Stony the Road We Trod in the Age of BLM, SayHerName, and Me Too. Edited by eds. Smith, Mitzi J., Parker, Angela N., and Dunbar Hill, Ericka S.. New York: Fortress Academic, 2023.Google Scholar
Smith, Mitzi J. and Suk Kim, Yung. Toward Decentering the New Testament: A Reintroduction. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2018.Google Scholar
Talbert, Charles H. Reading Luke: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the Third Gospel. Macon: Smyth & Helwys, 2013.Google Scholar
Tannehill, Robert C. The Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts: A Literary Interpretation, Vol. 1: The Gospel According to Luke. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.Google Scholar

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