The Pharisees and figured speech in Luke-Acts /Justin R. Howell.
- Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource (xii, 386 pages)
- Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe ; 456 .
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago Divinity School, 2016.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Preface; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part One: Contextualizing the Question; Chapter One: Defining Figured Speech; 1. Allusion (áơ#x94;ÎơÏ#x86;Î"Ï#x83;ιÏ#x82;); 2. Discretion (Îæáư#x90;Ï#x80;Ï#x81;ÎƯÏ#x80;ÎæιÎ"); 3. Security (áơ#x80;Ï#x83;Ï#x86;ÎƠÎ"ÎæιÎ"); 4. Freedom of Speech (Ï#x80;Î"Ï#x81;Ï#x81;ηÏ#x83;ÎĪ̂"); 5. Irony (Îæáơ°Ï#x81;Ï#x89;ÎưÎæÎĪ̂"); 6. Indirect Speech (áư#x81; Ï#x80;Î"ÎƠγιοÏ#x82; Î"Ï#x8C;γοÏ#x82;); 7. Figured Speech as an Art (Ï#x84;ÎƯÏ#x87;Îưη); Chapter Two: Methodological Approach; 1. Redactional Analysis; 2. Intertextual and Interconceptual Analysis; 3. Rhetorical and Literary Analysis; 4. Historical Analysis; 5. The History of Reception. Chapter Three: Scholarship on the Historical Pharisees1. The Authority of the Pharisees; 2. The Pharisees in the Roman Empire; Chapter Four: The Provenance of Luke-Acts; 1. Judea; 2. Ephesus; 3. Antioch in Syria; 4. The Question about Diaspora Pharisees; Chapter Five: Luke and His Readers; 1. Authorship and Date; 2. Luke and Ethnic Perspective; 3. God-Fearers in Luke-Acts; 4. The Question about Pharisaic Readers; Part Two: The Suppression of Free Speech; Chapter Six: From Figured to Free Speech; 1. Framing the Narrative of Luke-Acts; 2. The Lukan Pharisees as Spies; 3. Conclusions. Chapter Seven: Paul and Other Former Pharisees1. Paulâ#x80;#x99;s Feigned Ignorance about the High Priest (Acts 23.5); 2. Ananias as Ruler of the People; 3. Paulâ#x80;#x99;s Appeals to His Pharisaism (Acts 23.6; 26.5); 4. The Lukan Paul and His Alleged Roman Citizenship; 5. The Other Former Pharisees (Acts 15.5); 6. Conclusions; Chapter Eight: Gamaliel and the God-Fighters; 1. Complications around Gamaliel; 2. Theudas, Judas, Gamaliel, and Their Respective Followers; 3. Obedience to God versus Obedience to Gamaliel; 4. The Sanhedrin among Other God-Fighters; 5. Distinguishing Gamaliel from the Apostles. 6. Theudas, Judas, and Jesus7. Persecution for (Speech in) the Name; 8. Conclusions; Part Three: Luke's Moral Diagnosis of the Pharisees; Chapter Nine: The Initial Symptoms of Illness; 1. The Pharisees Who Remain Seated (Luke 5.17â#x80;#x93;32); 2. The Folly of the Scribes and Pharisees (Luke 6.6â#x80;#x93;11); 3. The Textual Variant at Luke 5.17c; 4. The Lukan Jesus as a Doctor of the Soul (Luke 4.23; 5.31â#x80;#x93;32); 5. Conclusions; Chapter Ten: The Passions of Injustice; 1. The Passion for Money; 2. The Passion for Glory; 3. The Passion for Luxury; 4. Passions of Injustice in Moral Philosophical Traditions. 5. The Rulers of the Pharisees and the Question of Justice6. Conclusions; Chapter Eleven: The Evil Eye and Its Cure; 1. The Pharisees and the Evil Eye of Predatory Greed; 2. Curing the Evil Eye; 3. The â#x80;#x9C;Someâ#x80;#x9D; and â#x80;#x9C;Othersâ#x80;#x9D; in the Beelzebul Controversy; 4. Conclusions; Part Four: The Pharisees and the Kingdom of God; Chapter Twelve: The Kingdom within Reach; 1. Previous Interpretations of áơ#x90;ÎưÏ#x84;áưıÏ#x82; áư#x91;Îơá¿œÎư (Luke 17.21); 2. The Kingdom â#x80;#x9C;within youâ#x80;#x9D;; 3. The Governing Part of the Soul; 4. The Kingdom â#x80;#x9C;among youâ#x80;#x9D;; 5. The Lukan Jesus as Kingly Benefactor; 6. Conclusions.
Back cover: Why does Luke give an ambiguous impression of the Pharisees? And what lies behind the rhetorical effects of this ambiguity? Justin R. Howell reevaluates the long-standing debate about the Pharisees in Luke-Acts, arguing the thesis that there is ambiguity in the Lukan Pharisees because, in his portrayals of them, the author has applied what ancient Greco-Roman rhetoricians call "figured speech." "A scholarly consensus holds that Luke is ambivalent toward the Pharisees, or at least that he has left readers with an ambiguous depiction of them. What previous evaluations of the Lukan Pharisees have left unanswered, however, is why Luke would give such an impression of these characters and then what might lie behind the rhetorical effects of ambiguity. Justin R. Howell reevaluates the long-standing debate about the Pharisees in Luke-Acts, arguing the thesis that there is ambiguity in the Lukan Pharisees because, in his portrayals of them, the author has applied what ancient Greco-Roman rhetoricians call "figured speech." The fact that the Lukan Pharisees appear ambiguous to some readers does not necessarily mean that Luke was also undecided about or ambivalent toward them, for the use of figured speech can presuppose a firm and critical stance on the characters in view."--! From publisher's description.