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Rethinking the Unity of Luke and Acts Paperback – November 1, 1993

by Richard I. Pervo (Author), Mikeal C. Parsons (Translator)

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Richard I. Pervo has taught at Seabury-Western Seminary and the University of Minnesota and is the author of numerous books in New Testament studies. He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.Mikeal C. Parsons holds the Kidd L. and Buna Hitchcock Macon Chair in Religion at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, where he has taught since 1986. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including The Departure of Jesus in Luke and Acts, Body and Character in Luke and Acts, co-author (with Heidi J. Hornik) of Illuminating Luke (3 vols.), and co-author (with Martin Culy) of Acts: A Handbook on the Greek Text.

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"If the history of scholarship proves one thing, it is certainly this, that reiteration of a conclusion does not necessarily establish its validity. Is Acts the sequel of the Gospel of Luke? Many have answered affirmatively, and some without even bothering to ask the question. Professors Parsons and Pervo argue that the two works are independent narratives, each telling the story differently. In the course of their challenge of alleged generic continuity, the authors focus on the early writer's Christology as a fruitful clue to the unity, not of Luke-Acts, but of Luke and Acts."

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Richard I. Pervo has taught at Seabury-Western Seminary and the University of Minnesota and is the author of numerous books in New Testament studies. He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Mikeal C. Parsons is Professor and Macon Chair in Religion at Baylor University, where he has taught since 1986. He has authored, co-authored, or edited more than twenty-five books and numerous articles and essays. With Heidi J. Hornik, Parsons co-wrote the Illuminating Luke trilogy (T & T Clark). He also co-authored the Baylor handbook on the Greek Text of Luke and Acts and published commentaries on Luke and Acts in the Paideia Series, which he co-edits.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fortress Press; First Edition (November 1, 1993)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 148 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0800627504
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0800627508
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.37 x 8.5 inches

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Seems you are intentionally omitting use numbers in the dates (e.g., monstruous "nineteen sixty seven / nineteen twenties" instead of simple "1967 / 1920s"). Is there any academic/religious reason for this?

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Since Henry J. Cadbury asserted that Luke and Acts were a unity in the nineteen twenties, there has been a great deal of significant work done on these books of the New Testament. The term, "Luke-Acts," has become ubiquitous. Two peas in a pod if you will. One book in two because the author ran out of space on the first scroll is the argument in its most base form. Cadbury's work was a lot more than just two from one and was seminal in the modern scholarship on Luke and Acts. And, subsequently monumental works on these documents appeared prior to the nineteen sixties from Dibelius, Haenchen, Conzelmann, and others. By the close of the sixties, the fire storm of controversy regarding Luke and Acts occupied many scholars of the New Testament. To gauge the state of affairs at that time, I recommend looking at a collection of essays on Luke and Acts edited by Leander Keck and J. Louis Martyn published in nineteen sixty-eight. The authors of the book herein being considered are Mikeal C. Parsons and Richard I. Pervo. They are two late twentieth century North American N.T. scholars who have devoted a great deal of their careers to the study of Luke and Acts. Much of their work has been provocative and somewhat out of the mainstream. This book was published in nineteen ninety-three and pointed out some issues regarding Luke and Acts that were still outstanding at that time or needed revisiting. What the authors do in this slim volume is frame questions regarding the "Lukan" corpus that needed to be addressed going forward, and propose tentative answers that diverge from the majority thought in some cases.

The book is composed of five chapters and a preface. Parsons wrote the preface and chapters one and three while Pervo wrote chapters two, four and five. The introduction provides a very short synopsis of prior scholarly thought and then a more expanded consideration of contemporary thought on the topics of authorial, canonical, generic, narrative, and theological unity. Each of the last three points of unity then receive chapter length attention. While authorial unity is assumed by these writers, it should be noted that that topic is still alive with a forthcoming book in the S.N.T.S. monograph series by Patricia Walters which will contest authorial unity. A short and cursory overview of the canonical unity of the two works is then provided. I for one would have hoped for a more robust section on canonical, tradition, and reception history in a study of the unity of Luke and Acts. As with most collaborative works, there are some discontinuities in style and usage depending on who is writing. However, the really jarring juxtapositions are between the introduction and the second chapter on genre unity both of which are straightforward prose presentations and the following two chapters. Chapter three on narrative unity is dependent on narratological analysis gleaned from academic literary criticism while chapter four proposes a theological anthropology to approach the potential unity of theology in Luke-Acts. Chapter five is a short conclusion which usefully recapitulates the major points made previously.

The consideration of genre unity is clear and concise. What genre do the gospels fall into? Are they ancient biography or a distinct "gospel" form? Regardless of which of these genres one assigns the gospel of Luke to, the next problem is trying to shoehorn the Acts of the Apostles into either of them, or if Acts is an example of ancient historiography, one then has to make the gospel fit into that genre to maintain unity. In either case, violence is done to the texts and the effort to find genre unity becomes counterproductive. The explication of the narrative unity of Luke and Acts revolves around the works at both the story and the discourse levels. While trying to compare Luke and Acts using narratological tools, Parsons is forced to explain these methods as almost no readers of N.T. scholarship were familiar with this form of criticism at the time this book was written. He proposes that no case for the unity of Luke and Acts can be made at the discourse level. A bigger problem here revolves around the narrative unity of Luke and Acts at the story level. In seeming deference to Robert Tannehill's monumental two volume study which argues for narrative unity at the story level, Parsons is reticent to find disunity but can not bring himself to endorse Tannehill's work. Pervo's contribution on the theological unity of Luke and Acts looks to a specific construction known as a theological anthropology. Therein, an attempt is made to find a universalizing of mankind's relationship to God which would validate the gentile mission which is a matter of great concern for the Acts of the Apostles. However, for Luke in his gospel, there was no need for such an anthropology as it is the story of Jesus, and His mission was almost exclusively to the Jews.

Considering the avowed purpose of this work which was to propose questions that needed to be attended to in Lukan scholarship, this book is a success. By taking the positions they have, the authors challenge their colleagues to pursue certain lines of research. To do this, they have brought forward a variety of interpretations which in the case of the generic, narrative, and theological unity of Luke and Acts go against the grain of majority opinion. In the alternative, they have suggested different approaches to the analysis of these matters. Where a specialized literary critical method or an anthropological construct was applied, the brevity of the considerations provided causes both a tentativeness in the substantive analysis and some confusion for the reader unless they are well versed in the application of the specific interdisciplinary technique used. Both, Pervo and Parsons have published extensively since this work on subjects pertaining to Luke and Acts and the questions raised in this book. Yet, the questions raised here are still alive and in play some fifteen years later. Sometimes definitive answers to difficult questions are hard to come by. And, once obtained upon further sober reflection, they often prove illusory. If you are deeply interested in early Church history, Christian origins, and the historical Jesus, I suggest reading this book. This work has made me think and carefully rethink some of my positions and should offer the informed reader a challenging thought provoking read.

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