Luke The Priest The Authority Of The Author Of The Third Gospel | Classics

This book focuses on the authority and status of the author of Luke-Acts. What authority did he have to write a Gospel to interpret the Jewish Scriptures and traditions of Israel to interpret the Jesus traditions and to update the narrative with a second volume with its interpretation of Paul and the other apostles who appear in the Acts narrative? Rick Strelan constructs the author as a Jewish Priest examining such issues as writing and orality authority and tradition and the status and role of priests. The analysis is set within the context of scholarly opinion about the author the intended audience and other related issues. |Luke the Priest The Authority of the Author of the Third Gospel | Classics