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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Bible. Luke."”.
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The topos of divine testimony in Luke-Acts.
… the concept of authoritative testimony in Luke-Acts. Specifically, the dissertation argues that ancient audiences would have understood particular elements in the narrative of Luke-Acts to be instances of the topos of divine testimony, considered by ancient rhetoricians to be the most …
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The elder son's quandary and the rich man's fate : moral formation, characterization, and rhetoric in Luke 15:11-32 and 16:19-31.
… a way to interpret the Parable of the Prodigals (Luke 15:11-32) and the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31). I selected these parables as case studies for the ways in which characterization, rhetoric, and moral formation relate because these parables contain many semantic links and rhetorical …
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Interweaving innocence : a rhetorical analysis of Luke's passion narrative.
… unsettled with regard to the interpretation of Luke's passion narrative: (1) the sources that Luke employed when composing his narrative; (2) how best to translate δίκαιος in 23:47 and how this confession contributes to Luke's characterization of Jesus; and (3) the function of the parallels …
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"Gods in human form?" : a study of the acclamations of divinity in the Acts of the Apostles.
… By portraying them as self-deifiers, Luke discredits these figures. Simon's self-deification makes him out to be the eternal, uncreated Creator-God. Luke's rhetorical strategy to discredit Simon phonetically inverts key Simonian claims to portray him as a charlatan. Herod's …
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Greco-Roman friendship in the Gospel according to Luke.
The Gospel of Luke contains more references to friendship than does any other work in the New Testament. This dissertation analyzes those references to friendship in light of Greco-Roman discourse on the subject in order to attain a wholistic understanding of friendship in the Gospel of Luke. It …
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Sight and blindness as an index of character in Luke-Acts and its cultural milieu.
… study of the biblical texts, and specifically of Luke-Acts. It is a literary study that seeks to understand what an ancient audience might have heard when reading these texts. Specifically, this dissertation is a literary study in characterization, particularly the use of physical descriptions as …
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Women and the Gospel in Luke-Acts
Th. D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1955 [January Mid-Session Convocation]
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Figuring Jesus : the power of rhetorical figures of speech in the Gospel of Luke.
This dissertation examines Luke's use of rhetorical figures of speech on the lips of Jesus as a means of persuading his audience to accept a role-reversing message that challenged the social, religious, economic and political systems in the Roman Empire. A figure of speech is the use of either …