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Rewritten Gospel: The Composition of Luke and Rewritten Scripture

Rewritten Gospel: The Composition of Luke and Rewritten Scripture

Hardcover

Series: Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Für die Neutestamentliche Wissensch, Book 267

Bible Studies

ISBN10: 3111358089
ISBN13: 9783111358086
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Dec 30 2024
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.48
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

How early Christian gospels were written is an old question that continues to engage scholars. Moving beyond the traditional approach of reading Luke as a gentile gospel composed primarily using Greco-Roman methods of history and biography writing, this book argues that Luke's use of the earlier Gospel of Mark should be understood in the context of contemporaneous early Jewish writings known as Rewritten Scripture. Texts like the Book of Jubilees and Josephus's Antiquities interpret Scripture by rewriting it in such a way that ambiguities and contradictions are diminished, while also adapting it to contemporary beliefs and practices. A similar strategy of interpretation through rewriting best explains Luke's reworking of Mark. Even if Mark is not yet Scripture, Luke's manner of rewriting Mark suggests that Luke views the earliest gospel as an authoritative narrative about Jesus that merits interpretive clarification and expansion rather than rejection or critique. This approach offers solutions to various problems in the composition of Luke, such as the combination of expansion and omission, verbatim repetition and free paraphrase, and it also places Luke's compositional process within a plausible ancient literary context.

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