Luke the Historian of Israel’s Legacy, Theologian of Israel’s ‘Christ’ Luke and Acts as Rhetorical, Historiographical 'Biblical' Theology - Moessner, David Paul (De Gruyter, 2014)
Biographical note: David P. Moessner, University of Dubuque, IA, USA.
Main description: Do Luke and Acts form a miniature ‘Christian’ Bible? Among New Testament authors, Luke alone looks globally over 0written texts0 that are being read as authoritative scripture and pronounces them as pointing together severally, and as a whole, to the 0Messiah Jesus who must suffer.0 Read together these Jewish Scriptures are becoming the Christian ?Bible.’ Luke the Historian andTheologian argues that both Hellenistic rhetorical historiography and Israel’s scriptural heritage distinguish the ever intriguing landscape that we call Luke-Acts and, through a thematic movement of its own, brings both dimensions into bold, coherent relief